Statehood and Union

<p>This new edition of <i>Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance</i> 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.</p>