Ancient Law
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A good fit for
- Deep readers with a strong interest in law, history, or the history of social thought
- Advanced undergraduates or graduate students in law, history, sociology, and related fields
- Thinkers who wish to understand the historical roots of modern social institutions and ideas
- Readers who appreciate rigorous scholarly argument and grand historical narrative
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking light stories or quick practical legal knowledge
- Readers lacking patience for or grounding in theoretical and historical texts
Reading tips
- Read the introduction and first chapter first to grasp Maine's core questions and methodology.
- Relate the reading to specific historical contexts; do not try to understand every detail of ancient law at once—focus on grasping the logic of evolution.
- Use the proposition 'from status to contract' as a throughline and consider how it is embodied and argued in each chapter.
About the publisher
The Commercial Press is a publisher known for classic works and academic publishing, with titles spanning Eastern philosophy, foreign literature, world history, social culture, and applied psychology. Its list includes classical commentaries such as Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries on the Analects and Wang Bi's Commentary on the Zhouyi, as well as modern annotated translations like Zhuangzi with Modern Notes and Translation. In foreign literature it offers War and Peace and Crime and Punishment, while in world history it carries Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Applied psychology is represented by Irvin D. Yalom's Existential Psychotherapy, and ethical texts include a Greek-Chinese-English edition of the Nicomachean Ethics. Its authors and translators include Zhu Xi, Wang Bi, Yalom, Braudel, and translators such as Huang Zheng, Zhang Yiling, Shen Dongyu, and Tang Jialong, balancing the editing of original texts with academic translation.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 汉译世界学术名著丛书（分科本）出版说明
- 序
- 导言
- 第一章 古代法典
- 第二章 法律拟制
- 第三章 自然法与衡平
- 第四章 自然法的现代史
- 第五章 原始社会与古代法
- 第六章 遗嘱继承的早期史
- 第七章 古今有关遗嘱与继承的各种思想
- 第八章 财产的早期史
- 第九章 契约的早期史
- 第十章 侵权和犯罪的早期史
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