This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices.

A look at copyright laws and practices through the ages.

Taking as its point of departure the lapse of the Licensing Act 1662 in 1695, this book examines the lead up to the passage of the Statute of Anne 1709 and charts the movement of copyright law throughout the eighteenth century, culminating ...

This is the first book to place Russia's 'long' eighteenth century squarely in its European context.

As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.

In this book Bernard Salanié studies situations where competitive markets fail to achieve a collective optimum and the interventions used to remedy these so-called market failures.

This book takes account of that past and pays attention to the pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial influence.