{"product_id":"9781441157553","title":"History of Technology Volume 31","description":"New work on early modern Europe has now opened up the hidden avenues  that link changes of technologies with a complex of cognitive,  institutional, spatial and cultural elements. It is true that all  divisions of history wish to incorporate all other divisions unto  themselves, but in the essays of our first collection there are specific  cases and analyses clearly delineated to show how technologies and  systems for the production, reproduction and representation of  technological changes emerged out of fundamental aspects of European  society and mentality. The question must be: How far were such  fundamental aspects unique (in their entirety and configuration) to  Europe?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second collection on patent agency takes the modern  industrialization of Europe as its focus, and illustrates the manner in  which systems of intellectual property rights generated manifold  agencies that acted to both spread and control the use of knowledge in  advanced sites. Patent agency has been generally neglected by  historians, one reason for this being the difficulty of defining  effective agency beyond the obvious confines of those who were actually  trained and remunerated as agents of invention. Informal networks or  sites may have been crucial in converting general patent systems into  local environs of technical advance.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125008875760,"sku":"9781441157553","price":140.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441157553_p0.jpg?v=1763790023","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441157553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}