Main entry:

Hartog, Hendrik, 1948-

Title & Author:

Public property and private power : the corporation of the city of New York in American law, 1730-1870 / Hendrik Hartog.

Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1983.

Description:

xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Studies in legal history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reading the charter -- The creation of autonomy -- The business of city government -- Planning by granting -- The political theory of a waterlot grant -- Burying the past -- A little republic in a republican state -- The changing role of property -- The promise of public power -- The ends of government in Republican New York City -- The triumph of a public sphere -- The laws of communities -- Unifying the public sphere -- The judicial creation of a municipal corporation -- The private property of a public entity : crossing Brooklyn ferry.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0807815624
9780807815625

Subject:

Law New York (State) New York History.
Municipal corporations New York (State) New York History.
Droit New York (État) New York Histoire.
Law
Municipal corporations
Local government State supervision New York (State) New York History.
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Studies in legal history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 55384
Call No.: ID:90-B3881
Status: Available