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? The 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.
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