The End of Anglo-America
The End of Anglo-America

Author: Robert Arthur Burchell

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780719030772

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This collection of essays examines the phenomenon of the gradually evolving cultural differences which took place between America and Britain after the American revolution. A culture of individualism began to emerge in contrast with elitism, leading to suspicion of government and emerging personal ambitions, particularly with regard to one's children. However, cultural changes emerged at a different pace in different parts of the country. One author argues that Britain and America continued as members of a single political family which, in turn, belonged to a wider European community. Another suggests that a clear but selective emancipation from the British political culture took place and that a development of distinctly American institutions and practices emerged. Yet another believes that in the United States there was less criticism of business success and less possibility of the generations that succeeded business success being seduced by gentrification.

Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Machines
Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Machines

Author: David J. Jeremy

Publisher: Variorum Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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This is a collection of ten essays about the transfer of early industrial textile technology from Britain to the USA. The whole is prefixed by an introduction arguing that the model of technology transfer found in the early industrial period has a wider and present day applicability.

Patent Cultures
Patent Cultures

Author: Graeme Gooday

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-07-07

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781108468886

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This book explores how dissimilar patent systems remain distinctive despite international efforts towards harmonization. The dominant historical account describes harmonization as ever-growing, with familiar milestones such as the Paris Convention (1883), the World Intellectual Property Organization's founding (1967), and the formation of current global institutions of patent governance. Yet throughout the modern period, countries fashioned their own mechanisms for fostering technological invention. Notwithstanding the harmonization project, diversity in patent cultures remains stubbornly persistent. No single comprehensive volume describes the comparative historical development of patent practices. Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective seeks to fill this gap. Tracing national patenting from imperial expansion in the early nineteenth century to our time, this work asks fundamental questions about the limits of globalization, innovation's cultural dimension, and how historical context shapes patent policy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the contested role of patents in the modern world.