Volume I:
Introduction
Part I: Early Origins
1. Invention, Authorship, "Intellectual Property," and the Origin of Patents: Notes toward a Conceptual History; 2. From Gunpowder to Print: The Common Origins of Copyright and Patent; 3. Guilds, Patents, and the Circulation of Technical Knowledge: Northern Italy During the Early Modern Age; 4. Invention and the State in 18th-Century; 5. The Genius and the Copyright: Economic and Legal Conditions of the Emergence of the “Author”
Part II: British Patents
6. But a New Button to an Old Coat: The Enactment of the Statute of Monopolies, 21 James I cap.3; 7. Rethinking the Development of Patents: An Intellectual History, 1550–1800; 8. The Patent Specification: The Role of Liardet v. Johnson; 9. James Watt and the Law of Patents; 10. Negotiating the Rewards of Invention: The Shop-Floor Inventor in Victorian Britain
Part III. British Copyright
11. The Stationer’s Company in England before 1710; 12. The Statute of Anne and the Great Abridgement Swindle; 13. The Author as Proprietor: Donaldson v. Becket and the Genealogy of Modern Authorship; 14. Copyright at Common Law in 1774—; 15. Upright Piracy: Understanding the Lack of Copyright for Journalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain; 16. Criminalising Copyright: A Story of Publishers, Pirates and Pieces of Eight; 17. From the Author to the Proprietor: Newspaper Copyright and the Times (1842–1956)
Part IV. The U.S. Constitutional Clause
18. The Anti-Monopoly Origins of the Patent and Copyright Clause; 19. Copyright in 1791: An Essay Concerning the Founders' View of the Copyright Power Granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution
Part V: American Patents
20. Patent Republic: Representing Inventions, Constructing Rights and Authors; 21. The Transformation of Antebellum Patent Law’, Technology and Culture; 22. The Emergence of the Professional Patent Practitioner; 23. The Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s; 24. Organisms and Manufactures: On the History of Plant Inventions; 25. Patent Politics: Intellectual Property, the Railroad Industry, and the Problem of Monopoly; 26.”Removing the Fuel” of Interest from the ‘Fire of Genius’: Law and the Employee Inventor, 1830-1930; 27. Getting a Grip on the Corset: Gender, Sexuality, and Patent Law; 28. The First Patent Litigation Explosion

Volume II:
An introduction to both volumes by the editor appears in volume 1
Part I: American Copyright
1. A Tale of Two Copyrights: Literary Property in Revolutionary France and America; 2. The Matter of the Text: Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law; 3. The Ideology of Authorship Revisited: Authors, Markets, and Liberal Values in Early American Copyright; 4. The Transformation of Originality in the Progressive-Era Debate over Copyright in News; 5. The Twilight of the Opera Pirates: A Prehistory of the Exclusive Right of Public Performance for Musical Compositions
Part II: Trademarks
6. French Connections: The International Propagation of Trademarks in the Nineteenth Century; 7. The Making of Modern Trade Mark Law: The Construction of the Legal Concept of Trade Mark 1860–80; 8. Hunting Goodwill: A History of the Concept of Goodwill in Trademark Law; 9. The Making of the Post-War Paradigm in American Intellectual Property Law
Part III: Colonial Intellectual Property
10. Copyright, Translations, and Relations between Britain and India in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; 11. Hebrew Authors and English Copyright Law in Mandate Palestine
Part IV: International Intellectual Property
12. Great Britain and the Signing of the Berne Convention in 1886: Part 2; 13. Authors as Copyright Campaigners: Mark Twain’s Legacy
Part V: Economic Perspectives
14. Property Rights and Patent Litigation in Early Nineteenth-Century America; 15. How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs; 16. Patent Alchemy: The Market for Technology in U.S. History
Index