Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872

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University of Chicago Press, 2001 - Business & Economics - 295 pages
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]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

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Contents

1From the Banks of Healys Slough
1
2The Booster System
28
3The Introduction of Segmentation
61
4The Mechanics of Local Control
104
5The Politics of Segmentation
144
6The New Public Interest
188
The Great Fire and the New Public
231
Citation of Poll Books and Election Returns
246
Bibliography
269
Index
285
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Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872
Robin Leigh Einhorn
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About the author (2001)

Robin L. Einhorn is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Bibliographic information

TitleProperty Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872
AuthorRobin L. Einhorn
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press, 2001
ISBN0226194868, 9780226194868
Length295 pages
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Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Business & Economics / Economic History
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / General
History / United States / State & Local / General
History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Political Science / American Government / Local
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
  
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