Maitland: State, Trust and CorporationThe 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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| Title | Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought |
| Author | F. W. Maitland |
| Editors | David Runciman, Magnus Ryan |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521526302, 9780521526302 |
| Length | 136 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Europe / Great Britain / General History / Europe / Medieval History / Social History Political Science / Essays Political Science / General Political Science / History & Theory Political Science / Reference |
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