{"product_id":"gibbons-v-ogden-law-and-thomas-h-cox-9780821418468","title":"Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic\u003c\/i\u003e examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecided in 1824, \u003ci\u003eGibbons v. Ogden\u003c\/i\u003e arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines over passenger and freight routes between the neighboring states of New York and New Jersey. But what began as a local dispute over the right to ferry the paying public from the New Jersey shore to New York City soon found its way into John Marshall's court and constitutional history. The case is consistently ranked as one of the twenty most significant Supreme Court decisions and is still taught in constitutional law courses, cited in state and federal cases, and quoted in articles on constitutional, business, and technological history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGibbons v. Ogden\u003c\/i\u003e initially attracted enormous public attention because it involved the development of a new and sensational form of technology. To early Americans, steamboats were floating symbols of progress-cheaper and quicker transportation that could bring goods to market and refinement to the backcountry. A product of the rough-and-tumble world of nascent capitalism and legal innovation, the case became a landmark decision that established the supremacy of federal regulation of interstate trade, curtailed states' rights, and promoted a national market economy. The case has been invoked by prohibitionists, New Dealers, civil rights activists, and social conservatives alike in debates over federal regulation of issues ranging from labor standards to gun control. This lively study fills in the social and political context in which the case was decided-the colorful and fascinating personalities, the entrepreneurial spirit of the early republic, and the technological breakthroughs that brought modernity to the masses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas H. Cox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821418467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821418468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010 pg. 185","brand":"Thomas H. Cox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926522560767,"sku":"9780821418468","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_67b4f000-da02-4b74-a3a0-6d352c000414.jpg?v=1681083533","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gibbons-v-ogden-law-and-thomas-h-cox-9780821418468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}