Henry James Sumner Maine

Henry James Sumner Maine

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI (15 August 1822 3 February 1888), was an English comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract.

Henry James's Books:

[A Bundle Of Letters | A Passionate Pilgrim | An International Episode | Confidence | Daisy Miller | El Arbol De La Ciencia | Eugene Pickering | Glasses | Greville Fane | Hawthorne | In The Cage | La Edad Madura | La Figura En El Tapiz | La Leyenda De Ciertas Ropas Antiguas | Le Tour Decrou | Lo Mejor De Todo | Louisa Pallant | Madame De Mauves | Nona Vincent | Pandora | Roderick Hudson | Sir Dominick Ferrand | The Altar Of The Dead | The Ambassadors | The American Scene | The American | The Aspern Papers | The Author Of Beltraffio | The Awkward Age | The Beast In The Jungle | The Beldonald Holbein | The Bostonians | The Chaperon | The Coxon Fund | The Death Of The Lion | The Diary Of A Man Of Fifty | The Europeans | The Figure In The Carpet | The Golden Bowl | The Jolly Corner | The Lesson Of The Master | The Madonna Of The Future | The Marriages | The Patagonia | The Pension Beaurepas | The Point Of View | The Portrait Of A Lady | The Pupil | The Real Thing | The Suburbs Of London | The Tragic Muse | The Turn Of The Screw | Washington Square | What Maisie Knew | Wings Of The Dove | A Little Tour In France | Embarrassments | Four Meetings | Georgina Reasons | Picture And Text | The Bostonians Vol I | The Bostonians Vol Ii | The Finer Grain | The Middle Years | The Outcry | The Reverberator | The Sacred Fount]

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