Author: Peter S. Onuf

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 2019-02-28

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0268105480

This new edition of Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance, originally published in 1987, is an authoritative account of the origins and early history of American policy for territorial government, land distribution, and the admission of new states in the Old Northwest. In a new preface, Peter S. Onuf reviews important new work on the progress of colonization and territorial expansion in the rising American empire.