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The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine: A Centennial Reappraisal

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In The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine one of the vital world’s leading scholars, in a variety of disciplines, come together to believe the strange achievement of Sir Henry Maine, sometime Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1877-1888) and one of the vital 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 advance of social scientific observe. The book is split into four sections, coping 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 in spite of everything 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.

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