Piracy :

A general history of the pirates -- The invention of piracy -- The piratical enlightenment -- Experimenting with print -- Pharmaceutical piracy and the origins of medical patenting -- Of epics and orreries -- The land without property -- Making a nation -- The printing counterrevolution -- Inventors...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adrian Johns.
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:English
Published: The University of Chicago Press, c2009.
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:83bbc605-31af-4d70-9eda-2f248d3546ae
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Summary:A general history of the pirates -- The invention of piracy -- The piratical enlightenment -- Experimenting with print -- Pharmaceutical piracy and the origins of medical patenting -- Of epics and orreries -- The land without property -- Making a nation -- The printing counterrevolution -- Inventors, schemers, and men of science -- International copyright and the science of civilization -- The first pirate hunters -- The great oscillation war -- Intellectual property and the nature of science -- The pirate at home and at large -- From phreaking to fudding -- Past, present, and future.
Published:c2009.