The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine

Cambridge University Press

2006

472 p.

9780521034548

Notes on contributors; Foreword Sir John Lyons; Introduction Alan Diamond; 1. The Victorian values of Sir Henry Maine George Feaver; Part I. Maine and the Idea of Progress: 2. Henry Maine and mid-Victorian ideas of progress John W. Burrow; 3. Maine, progress and theory Raymond Cocks; 4. Maine and the theory of progress Krishan Kumar; 5. Democracy and excitement: Maine's political pessimism Stefan Collini; Part II. Maine and the Social Sciences: 6. The rise and fall of Maine's patriarchal society Adam Kuper; 7. Some contributions of Maine to history and anthropology Alan D. J. Macfarlane; 8. Henry Sumner Maine in the tradition of the analysis of society Edward Shils; 9. Maine as an ancestor of the social sciences J. D. Y. Peel; 10. Ancient Law and modern fieldwork Ray Abrahams; Part III. Maine on Law, Legal Change and Legal Education: 11. Maine and legal education Peter G. Stein; 12. Maine and legal education: a comment William Twining; 13. A wake (or awakening?) for historical jurisprudence Calvin Woodard; 14. Further thoughts on Maine's historical jurisprudence David E. C. Yale; 15. Fictions, equity and legislation: Maine's three agencies of legal change Alan Diamond; 16. Law and language: a metaphor in Maine, a model for his successors? Bernard S. Jackson; 17. Linguistics and law: the legacy of Sir Henry Maine John Lyons; Part IV. Maine and India: 18. The influence of Sir Henry Maine on agrarian policy in India Clive Dewey; 19. India and Henry Maine Gordon Johnson; 20. Maine and change in nineteenth-century India C. A. Bayly; Appendix: the conference programme; Bibliography; Index.

Some of the world's leading scholars in the social sciences come together to consider the achievement of Sir Henry Maine, one of the most powerful and influential minds of the Victorian age.

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