Sir Henry Maine
Title | Sir Henry Maine PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Cocks |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521524964 |
A demonstration of the contemporary context and significance of Maine's approach to the law.
Ancient Law
Title | Ancient Law PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Sumner Maine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 462 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | Law |
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In his preface, Maine defines his scope: "...the chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, & to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought."
The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine
Title | The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Diamond |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 474 |
Release | 1991-11-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521400236 |
Leading scholars in the social sciences come together to consider the achievement of Sir Henry Maine.
Sir Henry Maine
Title | Sir Henry Maine PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Henry Sumner Maine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Title | Lectures on the Early History of Institutions PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Sumner Maine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Comparative law |
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From Status to Contract
Title | From Status to Contract PDF eBook |
Author | George Feaver |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Define and Rule
Title | Define and Rule PDF eBook |
Author | Mahmood Mamdani |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 139 |
Release | 2012-10-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0674071271 |
Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according to tribe. Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference. A mid-nineteenth-century crisis of empire attracted the attention of British intellectuals and led to a reconception of the colonial mission, and to reforms in India, British Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies. The new politics, inspired by Sir Henry Maine, established that natives were bound by geography and custom, rather than history and law, and made this the basis of administrative practice. Maine’s theories were later translated into “native administration” in the African colonies. Mamdani takes the case of Sudan to demonstrate how colonial law established tribal identity as the basis for determining access to land and political power, and follows this law’s legacy to contemporary Darfur. He considers the intellectual and political dimensions of African movements toward decolonization by focusing on two key figures: the Nigerian historian Yusuf Bala Usman, who argued for an alternative to colonial historiography, and Tanzania’s first president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who realized that colonialism’s political logic was legal and administrative, not military, and could be dismantled through nonviolent reforms.