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050	0	0	_aK1401 _b.F63 2021
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100	1		_aFord, Laura R., _d1975- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe intellectual property of nations : _bsociological and historical perspectives on a modern legal institution / _cLaura R. Ford, Bard College.
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 431 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2021).
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Legal institutions and social power : setting the stage -- Legal orders and social performance : founding Facebook -- Instruments of legal power in the Roman Republic -- Semantic legal ordering : idealizing Roman Law -- Cultural transformations : christianizing legal power -- Privileges and immunities in a sacramentalizing order -- Administrative kingship & covenantal bonds : early roots of intellectual property in England -- Intellectual property in a nationalizing order -- Cultural transformations : naturalizing intellectual property -- Semantic legal ordering : idealizing intellectual property -- Instruments of legal power in the American Republic -- Legal institutions and social performance : founding a global order -- Conclusion : the intellectual property of nations.
520			_aDrawing on macro-historical sociological theories, this book traces the development of intellectual property as a new type of legal property in the modern nation-state system. In its current form, intellectual property is considered part of an infrastructure of state power that incentivizes innovation, creativity, and scientific development, all engines of economic growth. To show how this infrastructure of power emerged, Laura Ford follows macro-historical social theorists, including Michael Mann and Max Weber, back to antiquity, revealing that legal instruments very similar to modern intellectual property have existed for a long time and have also been deployed for similar purposes. Using comparative and historical evidence, this groundbreaking work reflects on the role of intellectual property in our contemporary political communities and societies; on the close relationship between law and religion; and on the extent to which law's obliging force depends on ancient, written traditions.
650		0	_aIntellectual property _xHistory.
650		0	_aIntellectual property _xSocial aspects.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107198975
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182935
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