Katherine C Epstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1472137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine C Epstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine C |
| FAMILY NAME | Epstein |
| SIGNATURE | EPSTEIN K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden; US |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Analog Superpowers
Intellectual property and national security
This article explores the complex and changing relationship between technological development, intellectual property, and national security in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Its specific case study concerns an important invention developed by a naval officer. Technological innovations not only were vital to British security but also embodied commercially valuable intellectual property. The state’s interest in acquiring control of the intel…
The other visible hand
The other visible hand
S’appuyant sur l’étude du cas du développement des torpilles, cet article met en évidence et analyse la tension entre les enjeux de sécurité nationale du point de vue de l’État et les intérêts, en matière de propriété intellectuelle, des industriels de la défense aux États-Unis avant la Première Guerre mondiale. Il suggère que cette tension représente une part inexplorée de l’histoire du « privilège du secret d’État », et que sa compréhension peu…
Scholarship and the ship of state
This article uses the centenary of the First World War as an opportunity to re-examine a major element of the existing literature on the war—the strategic implications of supposed British decline—as well as analogies to the contemporary United States based upon that interpretation of history. It argues that the standard declinist interpretation of British strategy rests to a surprising degree upon the work of the naval historian Arthur Marder, an…
Imperial Airs
In January 1904, at a lecture by a famous geographer, only a few weeks after the first flight of the Wright brothers, a young journalist named Leo Amery argued that air power would become a major ingredient of world power. His prescient comment is often quoted, but only to be glossed over. This article elaborates on it. The origins of Amery's views on air power lay in his childhood, his experience covering the South African War and the ‘national …
Imperial Airs
In January 1904, at a lecture by a famous geographer, only a few weeks after the first flight of the Wright brothers, a young journalist named Leo Amery argued that air power would become a major ingredient of world power. His prescient comment is often quoted, but only to be glossed over. This article elaborates on it. The origins of Amery's views on air power lay in his childhood, his experience covering the South African War and the ‘national …
Imperial Airs
In January 1904, at a lecture by a famous geographer, only a few weeks after the first flight of the Wright brothers, a young journalist named Leo Amery argued that air power would become a major ingredient of world power. His prescient comment is often quoted, but only to be glossed over. This article elaborates on it. The origins of Amery's views on air power lay in his childhood, his experience covering the South African War and the ‘national …
Scholarship and the ship of state
This article uses the centenary of the First World War as an opportunity to re-examine a major element of the existing literature on the war—the strategic implications of supposed British decline—as well as analogies to the contemporary United States based upon that interpretation of history. It argues that the standard declinist interpretation of British strategy rests to a surprising degree upon the work of the naval historian Arthur Marder, an…
The other visible hand
The other visible hand
S’appuyant sur l’étude du cas du développement des torpilles, cet article met en évidence et analyse la tension entre les enjeux de sécurité nationale du point de vue de l’État et les intérêts, en matière de propriété intellectuelle, des industriels de la défense aux États-Unis avant la Première Guerre mondiale. Il suggère que cette tension représente une part inexplorée de l’histoire du « privilège du secret d’État », et que sa compréhension peu…
Intellectual property and national security
This article explores the complex and changing relationship between technological development, intellectual property, and national security in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Its specific case study concerns an important invention developed by a naval officer. Technological innovations not only were vital to British security but also embodied commercially valuable intellectual property. The state’s interest in acquiring control of the intel…
Analog Superpowers
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Intellectual property (2 works) · National security (2 works) · World War II (2 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work)