This book was recognised at once as a masterpiece and has since been accepted as one of the great histories in the English language.

This book was recognised at once as a masterpiece and has since been accepted as one of the great histories in the English language.

In 1875, at only 25 years of age, historian F.W. Maitland, in pursuit of a fellowship at the University of Cambridge, submitted a remarkable work, which is the essence of this volume. This edition includes a note on Maitland by Charles Haskins, and a general account of Maitland's life and work.

'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

This selection of historical essays by F. W. Maitland is designed to render more accessible shorter writings of Maitland's.

That Maitland's hypotheses and conclusions should still be central to such a debate is not the least remarkable feature of this extraordinary book.

Maitland's late, great essays on the historical origins of the state.

This study looks at the forms of action and how they are a part of the structure upon which rests the whole common law of England.

Maitland's late, great essays on the historical origins of the state.

In 1875, at only 25 years of age, historian F.W. Maitland, in pursuit of a fellowship at the University of Cambridge, submitted a remarkable work, which is the essence of this volume. This edition includes a note on Maitland by Charles Haskins, and a general account of Maitland's life and work.

A re-issue of F. W. Maitland's translation of a vital section from Otto Gierke's monumental Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht.