F.W. Maitland and the Making of the Modern World

F.W. Maitland is sometimes thought of as merely a great legal historian of England. Yet in over three thousand published pages, including his History of English Law (1895) with F. Pollock (of which Maitland wrote all but one chapter), his Collected Papers in three volumes (1911), The Constitutional History of England (1919) and many other works he reveals himself to be one of the profoundest thinkers on how our modern world emerged, on a level with Montesquieu and Tocqueville. Maitland's works on Trusts, on Equity, on Government and on the great tradition of English Common Law explain, in brilliant and simple prose, how the quintessential institutions of successful democracy and capitalism were established in England and then America. Alan Macfarlane, F.B.A., is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge University and a Life Fellow of King's College. His website is alanmacfarlane.com.

Author: Alan MacFarlane
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 02/26/2018
Pages: 182
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781986028790
ISBN10: 1986028798
BISAC Categories:
- Education | General

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