"Public Property and Private Power, which tells the story of the conversion of the propertied, chartered city of New York into a model municipality of nineteenth-century America, is a work which allows us to examine the aesthetics of the historian's craft."—Reviews in American History
Public Property and Private Power
"A splendid study of the changing law of municipal corporations."—Journal of American History
Experts
"A subtle, difficult, and important book. It breaks new ground in two important subfields of American history: legal history and urban history. . . . Hartog's legal skills enable him to make sense of early corporation law at the same time that his historical skills allow him to disentangle the concepts of property and republicanism in the context of the emergence of the 'modern' city of New York."—Stanley Katz, Princeton University
Title Public Property and Private Power
Subtitle The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870
Author Hendrik Hartog
BISAC Subject Heading
LAW012000 LAW / Civil Procedure
HIS036010 HISTORY / United States / State & Local
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