Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872

Author/Contributor(s):	Einhorn, Robin L
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	12/01/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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