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Gibbons v. Ogden, law, and society in the early republic / Thomas H. Cox.

Title
Gibbons v. Ogden, law, and society in the early republic / Thomas H. Cox.
Author
Cox, Thomas H.
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009.

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Description
xvi, 260 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Alternative Title
Gibbons versus Ogden, law, and society in the early republic
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Steam power and patent law development in the eighteenth century -- Origins of the Fulton-Livingston monopoly -- Corporate negotiations -- Defending the monopoly -- Interstate competition -- Personal rivalries and lawsuits -- The road to the U.S. Supreme Court -- Strategies and deliberations -- The Gibbons decision and popular reaction -- The decline of the New York steamboat monopoly.
ISBN
  • 9780821418451 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0821418459 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780821418468 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0821418467 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009012770
OCLC
230199108
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library