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Who Owns the Sky? : The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020498
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Who Owns the Sky?DDC classification:
  • 343.7309/7
LOC classification:
  • KF2400 .B36 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- ONE A Momentous Problem -- TWO An Aerial Territory -- THREE The Peculiar Beauties of the Common Law -- FOUR A Uniform Law -- FIVE Interstate Commerce in the Air -- SIX Landowners against the Aviation Industry -- SEVEN The Rise and Fall of Air Law -- EIGHT William Douglas Has the Last Word -- NINE Sovereignty in Space -- TEN Technological Change and Legal Change -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner's book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- ONE A Momentous Problem -- TWO An Aerial Territory -- THREE The Peculiar Beauties of the Common Law -- FOUR A Uniform Law -- FIVE Interstate Commerce in the Air -- SIX Landowners against the Aviation Industry -- SEVEN The Rise and Fall of Air Law -- EIGHT William Douglas Has the Last Word -- NINE Sovereignty in Space -- TEN Technological Change and Legal Change -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner's book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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