Public Property and Private Power : : The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870 / / Hendrik Hartog.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hartog, Hendrik,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501732478; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501732478
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hendrik Hartog.