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Age of Revolution
Related publications (5)
An Industrial West? Analyzing Multilingual Newspapers Discourses about Technology during the Second Industrial Revolution (1840-1930)
While the idea of technology as a driving force of history and society has been extensively studied in the history of the Industrial Revolutions, little attention has been paid to the social perception of those technologies. This thesis focuses on the disc ...
2023A Politics of Intellectual Property: The French Revolution and the Creation of a Patent System
Our understanding of the rise of intellectual property has been highly influenced by the tools and concepts of economic history and the lens of the Industrial Revolution. Looking at the case of France, this article examines the cultural and ideological ori ...
2020A Politics of Intellectual Property Creating a Patent System in Revolutionary France
Economic interpretations, in particular the lens of the Industrial Revolution, have strongly influenced our understanding of the rise of intellectual property. This article examines the political origins of the 1791 patent law in France, which is usually s ...
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