Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY BERNARD W. SHEEHAN
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I. The Significance of the Northwest Ordinance
II. The Peopling of the Old Northwest
III. The Origins of Community in the Old Northwest
IV. The Origins of Politics in the Old Northwest
V. The Politics of Cultural Definition
VI. The Politics of Accommodation and the Significance of the Frontier
Epilogue: Fredrick Jackson Turner, Regional Historian
Notes
Index