Cloth $75.00 ISBN: 9780226194844 Published October 1991
Paper $32.50 ISBN: 9780226194868 Published December 2001

Property Rules

Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872

Robin L. Einhorn

 Property Rules
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Robin L. Einhorn

314 pages | 7 halftones, 10 maps | 6 x 9 | © 1991, 2001
Cloth $75.00 ISBN: 9780226194844 Published October 1991
Paper $32.50 ISBN: 9780226194868 Published December 2001
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
For more information, or to order this book, please visit http://www.press.uchicago.edu
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