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Gibbons v. Ogden, law, and society in the early republic
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Gibbons v. Ogden, law, and society in the early republic / Thomas H. Cox.
ISBN
9780821418451 (cloth : alk. paper)
0821418459 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780821418468 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0821418467 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xvi, 260 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Variant and related titles
Gibbons versus Ogden, law, and society in the early republic.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 03, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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