In Property Rules, Robin L. Einhorn uses City Council records-previously thought destroyed-and census data to track the course of city government in Chicago, providing an important reinterpretation of the relationship between political and social structures in the nineteenth-century American city.
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"[A] masterful study of policy-making in Chicago." Choice
"[A] major contribution to urban and political history. . . . [A]n excellent book." Jeffrey S. Adler, American Historical Review
"[A]n enlightening trip. . . . Einhorn's foray helps make sense out of the transition from Jacksonian to Gilded Age politics on the local level. . . . [She] has staked out new ground that others would do well to explore." Arnold R. Hirsch, American Journal of Legal History
"A well-documented and informative classic on urban politics." Daniel W. Kwong, Law Books in Review
Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872
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Author(s)Robin L. Einhorn
PublisherUniversity Of Chicago Press
ISBN / ASIN0226194841
ISBN-139780226194844
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