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Public Property and Private Power : The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730-1870 / Hendrik Hartog.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hartog, Hendrik, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Law.
- Municipal corporations--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Municipal corporations.
- New York History.
- Urban Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- New York History.
- Urban Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I: THE PROPERTIES OF THE CORPORATION
- Chapter 1: Reading the Charter
- Chapter 2: The Creation of Autonomy
- Chapter 3: The Business of City Government
- Chapter 4: Planning by Granting
- Chapter 5: The Political Theory of a Waterlot Grant
- PART II: CITY POWER IN REPUBLICAN AMERICA
- Chapter 6: Burying the Past
- Chapter 7: A Little Republic in a Republican State
- Chapter 8: The Changing Role of Property
- Chapter 9: The Promise of Public Power
- Chapter 10: The Ends of Government in Republican New York City
- Chapter 11: The Triumph of a Public Sphere
- PART III: THE CORPORATION IN THE GRIP OF THE LAW
- Chapter 12: The Laws of Communities
- Chapter 13: Unifying the Public Sphere
- Chapter 14: The Judicial Creation of a Municipal Corporation
- Chapter 15: The Private Property of a Public Entity: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Conclusion
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-3247-1
- OCLC:
- 1088931133
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