MAITLAND FREDERIC-WILLIAM

(P/B) A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF LIBERTY & EQUALITY (0865972931)
A Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality is a window to one of the most important historians of all time. This exclusive Liberty Fund edition of F. W. Maitland's classic includes a note on Maitland by Charles Haskins, and a general account of Maitland's life and work, "The Historical Spirit Incarnate: Frederic William Maitland," by Robert Schuyler. A historian's historian, F. W. Maitland was never to be caught indulging in fanciful speculation about times long past. Rather, he said, "We shall have to think away distinctions which seem t...
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(P/B) THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
'Constitutional history should, to my mind, be a history not of parties but of institutions, not of struggles but of results ?' F. W. Maitland's remarkable course of lectures provides the basic framework of English constitutional history in a brief, but original, scholarly and very readable form. His method is to take five crucial periods and to present in each a panoramic view of the processes of law and government; his attention is always fixed on the constitution as a growing fabric, as something devised and employed by live human being...
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