Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation

Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation
ISBN-10
0521526302
ISBN-13
9780521526302
Category
History
Pages
204
Language
English
Published
2003-11-13
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
F. W. Maitland

Description

The essays collected in State, Trust and Corporation contain the reflections of England's greatest legal historian on the legal, historical and philosophical origins of the idea of the state. All written in the first years of the twentieth century, Maitland's essays are classics both of historical writing and of political theory. They contain a series of profound insights into the way the character of the state has been shaped by the non-political associations that exist alongside it, and their themes are of continuing relevance today. This is the first new edition of these essays for sixty years, and the first of any kind to contain full translations, glossary and expository introduction. It has been designed to make Maitland's writings fully accessible to the non-specialist, and to make available to anyone interested in the idea of the state some of the most important modern writings in English on that subject.

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