Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872

by Robin L. Einhorn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226194841
• ISBN13: 9780226194844
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"