and potentially misleading case studies. Daguerre, for instance, never obtained a patent in France and, instead, lobbied … representative samples drawn from Britain, France, and the United States, including “great inventors” and their ordinary counterparts …

in industrial fairs and prize-granting institutions in Britain, France and the United States, compared to parallel …

industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and …