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During the first decades of America's existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that set new standards for protecting industrial innovations. This book traces the evolution of America's contradictory approach to intellectual property rights from the colonial period to the age of Jackson.During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Britain shared technological innovations selectively with its American colonies. It became less willing to do so once America's fledgling industries grew more competitive. After the Revolution, the leaders of the republic supported the piracy of European technology in order to promote the economic strength and political independence of the new nation. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States became a leader among industrializing nations and a major exporter of technology. It erased from national memory its years of piracy and became the world's foremost advocate of international laws regulating intellectual property

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Knowledge as Property in the International State System -- Chapter 2. The Battle over Technology within the Empire -- Chapter 3. Benjamin Franklin and America's Technology Deficit -- Chapter 4. After the Revolution: ''The American Seduction of Machines and Artisans'' -- Chapter 5. O≈cial Orchestration of Technology Smuggling -- Chapter 6. Constructing the American Understanding of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 7. The Path to Crystal Palace -- Notes -- Index.

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Overview: The Silencing -- I. Scholars' Essays -- 1. BDS and Self-Righteous Moralists -- 2. Consensus, Canadian Trade Unions, and Intellectuals for Hamas -- 3. Bullies at the Pulpit -- 4. A Traumatic Professorial Education: Anti-Zionism and Homophobia in a Serial Campus Hate Crime -- 5. Slouching toward the City That Never Stops: How a Left-Orientalist Anti-Israel Faculty Tour Forced Me to Say Something (Big Mistake!) -- 6. On Radio Silence and the Video That Saved the Day: The Attack against Professor Dubnov at the University of California San Diego, 2012 -- 7. Fraser versus the University College Union: A Personal Reflection -- 8. If You Are Not With Us: The National Women's Studies Association and Israel -- 9. Rhodes University, Not a Home for All: A Progressive Zionist's Two-Year Odyssey -- 10. Loud and Fast versus Slow and Quiet: Responses to Anti-Israel Activism on Campus -- 11. A Controversy at Harvard -- 12. Attempts to Exclude Pro-Israel Views from Progressive Discourse: Some Case Studies from Australia -- 13. Anti-Israel Antisemitism in England -- 14. Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom -- 15. When Did We Abandon Academic Integrity for Academic Freedom? -- 16. BDS and Zionophobic Racism -- 17. Friday, November 13, 2015, at the University of Texas, Austin: Anti-Zionists on the Attack -- 18. Colonel Richard Kemp at the University of Sydney, Australia, March 11, 2015 -- 19. "Oh! Now I've Got You!": In the Sights of Anti-Israelists at the Claremont Colleges -- 20. The Magic of Myth: Fashioning the BDS Narrative in the New Anthropology -- 21. Retaliation: The High Price of Speaking Out about Campus Antisemitism and What It Means for Jewish Students

This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and sentenced to death for bestiality at the turn of the eighteenth century. Their astonishing cases become a springboard to examine the Enlightenment Era political and religious turmoil of the region.