Statehood and Union
A History of the Northwest Ordinance
Seiten
2019
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-10545-7 (ISBN)
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-10545-7 (ISBN)
Statehood and Union is an authoritative account of the origins of American policy for territorial government, land distribution, and statehood in the Old Northwest.
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.
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.
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.
Maps
Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2019 Edition
Introduction
1. Liberty, Development, and Union: Visions of the West in the 1780s
2. Squatters, Speculators, and Settlers: The Land Ordinance of 1785
3. New States in the Expanding Union: The Territorial Government Ordinances
4. From Territory to State
5. Boundary Controversies
6. Slavery and Freedom
7. From Constitution to Higher Law
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.02.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Notre Dame IN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-268-10545-6 / 0268105456 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-268-10545-7 / 9780268105457 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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