UID:
almafu_9961055523402883
Format:
1 online resource (211 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-3995-0503-3
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1-3995-0502-5
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
Content:
This resource examines the way the corporation - a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal tradition - was imagined in the 19th century historical imagination.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2022.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: The Many and the One: Corporate Bodies and the Body Politic in US Law and Culture --
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1 Narrating Monopoly and Empire: Austin, Irving, and the Charles River Bridge Case --
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2 The Soulless Corporation: Cooper and the Decline of the Republic --
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3 Satanic Corporate Agents in the Marketplace: Hawthorne, Melville, De Forest, and the Uses of Allegory --
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4 Incorporating the Nation: Ruiz de Burton and “Quasi Public” Corporations --
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5 The End of Individualism: Tarbell, Norris, and the Power of Combinations --
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Conclusion: Frankenstein in a Gray Flannel Suit --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-3995-0501-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-3995-0500-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781399505024
