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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, Thomas H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Gibbons, Thomas, > 1757-1826 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Ogden, Aaron, > 1756-1839 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Fulton, Robert, > 1765-1815 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Interstate commerce > Law and legislation > United States > History > 19th century.
Inland navigation > Law and legislation > United States > History > 19th century.
Steamboats > Law and legislation > Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) > History > 19th century.
Table of 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.