"Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the … that would reconfigure world history in favour of British (and European) global domination. In this accessible analysis of … slavery, cotton plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade and beyond - placing technological change at the centre of world history." …

-- Special Issue: Patents in History -- Introduction. An Imperfection of Institutions -- Notes and References -- Antecedents to … Intellectual Property: the European Pre-history of the 'Ownership' of Knowledge -- Antecedents To Intellectual Property -- Greek … Patents -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- The History of the First Patents for Steam Vessels in Russia -- Prologue: The …