5. Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The East Indian Monopoly and the Transition from Limited Access in England, 1600–1813 23
6. 2. Adam Smith’s Theory of Violence and the Political Economics of Development 51
7. 3. Pluralism without Privilege? Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association 83
8. 4. Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts 109
9. 5. Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States 147
10. 6. Organizational Poisedness and the Transformation of Civic Order in Nineteenth- Century New York City 179
11. 7. Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State: Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750–1900 231
12. 8. The Right to Associate and the Rights of Associations: Civil- Society Organizations in Prussia, 1794–1908 291
13. 9. Opening Access, Ending the Violence Trap: Labor, Business, Government, and the National Labor Relations Act 331
14. Contributors 367
15. Contributors 369
16. Subject Index 375