Book Reviews, Summer 2018

We are pleased to announce the following recently published book reviews.

                  

The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke, by John Willinky, Reviewed by Jesse R. Erickson

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property. (University of Chicago Press)