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

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvi, 260 p. :; ill., map.
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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.