First published 1914
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions by Henry Sumner Maine is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Henry Sumner Maine
- First published
- 1914
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- London: John Murray, 1914 (7th ed.); Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Sir Henry Maine's lectures of 1875, the sequel to his Ancient Law, here in the seventh edition of 1914. He examines the early Irish Brehon law alongside kinship, tribal society, early legal remedies, and sovereignty, and compares the institutions of Celtic, Germanic, and Indian societies.
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19 chapters · 97,163 words · free to read here
- CONTENTS.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
- LECTURE I.: NEW MATERIALS FOR THE EARLY HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONS.
- LECTURE II.: THE ANCIENT IRISH LAW.
- LECTURE III.: KINSHIP AS THE BASIS OF SOCIETY.
- LECTURE IV.: THE TRIBE AND THE LAND.
- LECTURE V.: THE CHIEF AND HIS ORDER.
- LECTURE VI.: THE CHIEF AND THE LAND.
- LECTURE VII.: ANCIENT DIVISIONS OF THE FAMILY.
- LECTURE VIII.: THE GROWTH AND DIFFUSION OF PRIMITIVE IDEAS.
- I.
- II.
- LECTURE XI.: THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SETTLED PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN.
- LECTURE XII.: SOVEREIGNTY.
- LECTURE XIII.: SOVEREIGNTY AND EMPIRE.
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