Böcker av Robin L. Einhorn

This book tells a new story story of the development of city government in nineteenth-century America. Combining insights suggested by several important recent (and not so recent) studies with archival research in a previously unavailable documentary record, this book builds a narrative that is very different from those most urban historians have recounted.

In this text, Robin L. Einhorn uses City Council records and census data to track the course of city government in Chicago, providing an important reinterpretation of the relationship between political and social structures.

Shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear and loathing of taxes. This book reveals how the heated battles over taxation, the power to tax, and the distribution of tax burdens were rooted not in debates over personal liberty but rather in the rights of slaveholders to hold human beings as property.