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.
A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book"
"[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
- ISBN10 0226194841
- ISBN13 9780226194844
- Publish Date 25 October 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 314
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780226194844