The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine A Centennial Reappraisal [Paperback]

Leading scholars in the social sciences come together to consider the achievement of Sir Henry Maine.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.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.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 (18771888) 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 lÃä