The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine: A Centennial Reappraisal

Cambridge University Press, 11/7/1991
EAN 9780521400237, ISBN10: 0521400236

Hardcover, 472 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English

In The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine some of the world's leading scholars, in a wide range of disciplines, come together to consider the extraordinary achievement of Sir Henry Maine, sometime Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1877–1888) and one of the most powerful and original minds of the Victorian age. The disciplinary range and scholarly stature of the contributors is itself testimony to the fascination of Maine's work which, after a period of relative neglect, is now recognized as a unique and fecund contribution to the development of social scientific study. The book is divided into four sections, dealing with the principal strands of Maine's life and writing, viz. his views on social and political progress, his anthropological and social scientific works, his legal and jurisprudential thought and finally his writings on Indian affairs, the product (in part) of his experiences as the legal member of Council of the Governor-General from 1862 to 1869.

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.