Description:
Statehood and Union is an authoritative account of the origins of American policy for territorial government, land distribution, and statehood in the Old Northwest.
Brief description:
Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History, emeritus, at the University of Virginia. He is the author and co-author of fourteen books, including, with Annette Gordon-Reed, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.
Review Quotes:
"Peter Onuf brings political and constitutional history together in Statehood and Union and illustrates the importance of the ordinance in shaping the Northwest. His work should be read by all early national historians." --Jeffrey Brown, Indiana Magazine of History