Agricultural Revolution in England or Private Power Public Law

Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500-1850

Author: Mark Overton

This book is the first available survey of English agriculture between 1500 and
1850. Written specifically for students, it combines new material with an analysis of the existing literature. It describes farming in the sixteenth century, analyzes the reasons for improvements in agricultural output and productivity, and examines changes in the agrarian economy and society. Professor Overton argues that the impact of these related changes in productivity and social and economic structure in the century after 1750 amount to an agricultural revolution.

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Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights

Author: Susan K K Sell

Susan Sell's book reveals how power in international politics is increasingly exercised by private interests rather than governments. In 1994 the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted the Agreement in Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which dictated to states how they should regulate the protection of intellectual property. This book argues that TRIPS resulted from lobbying by powerful multinational corporations who wished to mould international law to protect their markets.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures and tables
	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Structure, agents, and institutions	30
3	US intellectual property rights in historical perspective	60
4	The domestic origins of a trade-based approach to intellectual property	75
5	The Intellectual Property Committee and transnational mobilization	96
6	Life after TRIPS: aggression and opposition	121
7	Conclusion: structured agency revisited	163
	References	189
	Index	210