Sir Henry Sumner Maine: 3 books
by Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Dante J. Scala
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Best known as a history of progress, Ancient Law is the enduring work of the 19th-century legal historian Henry Sumner Maine. Even those who have never read Ancient Law may find Maine's famous phrase "from status to contract" familiar. His narrative spans the ancient world, in which individuals...
by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
No one who is interested in the growth of human ideas or the origins of human society can afford to neglect Maine's Ancient Law. Published some fifty-six years ago it immediately took rank as a classic, and its epoch-making influence may not unfitly be compared to that exercised by Darwin's Origin of...
