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The Declaration of Independence of the thirteen States of which the American Union then consisted was adopted by Congress July 4, 1776. On November 30, 1782, Great Britain acknowledged independence of the United States, and on September 3, 1783, the treaty of peace was concluded.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning the United States
1. Official Publications
Agriculture, Reports of the Department of. Washington.
Appropriation, Letter from Secretary of Treasury with estimate of Annual. Washington.
Army Register of the United States. Washington.
Census, Tenth. Vols. I.–XXI. 4. Washington, 1883–89.—Eleventh, 26 vols. Washington, 1890–97.— Twelfth, 16 vols. Washington, 1901–04.
Census Bureau, Bulletins and Special Reports. Bulletin No. 20 contains Statistics of Cities. A Special Report contains Statistics of Benevolent Institutions. Washington, 1905.
Commerce of the United States, Reports on the Foreign. Annual. Washington.
Congressional Directory. Annual. Washington.
Constitutions, Federal and State, compiled by B. P. Poore. 2 pts. 8 Washington, 1877.
Debt of the United States, Statement of the Public. Annual. Washington.
Education, Annual Reports of Commissioner of. Washington. Education Bureau, Circulars of. Washington.
Engineers, Reports of the Chief of U.S. Army. [Describes public works on navigable rivers, &c.] Annual. Washington.
Ethnology Bureau, Reports of. Washington.
Foreign Office List. By Sir E. Herstlet. Annual. London.
Foreign Relations of the United States, Papers relating to, transmitted to Congress. Annual. Washington.
Foreign Office Reports (British). Annual Series and Miscellaneous Series. London.
Geological and Geographical Survey, Annual Reports of. Washington.
Immigration, Report of Commissioners. 8. Washington, 1892.
Interior, Report of Secretary on Operations of Department of the. Annual. Washington.
International Law of the United States, Digest of 3 vols. Washington, 1886.
Land Office, Report of Commissioner. Annual. Washington.
Loans and Currency, Acts of Congress Relating to, 1846–85. S. New York, 1888.
Labour Laws of the United States. Washington, 1892.—Report of Commissioner of Labour. Annual. Washington.—Bulletins of the Department of Labour. Washington.
Mineral Resources of the United States. By D. T. Day. Annual. Washington.
Mint, Report of the Director of. Annual. Washington.
Navy Register of the United States. Washington.
Navy, Report of the Secretary of. Annual. Washington.
Official Register of the United States. Washington.
Railways, Report on Statistics of, to Interstate Commerce Commission. Annual. Washington.
Revenue. Report of Commissioner of Internal. Annual. Washington.
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Annual. Washington.
Statistics Bureau, monthly Reports of, on Imports, Exports, Immigration, and Navigation of the United States. Washington.
Statutes at large, and Treaties of the United States. Published annually. Washington.
Revised Statutes of the United States. Washington, 1878. Supplements were published in 1891 and 1895, and will be continued annually under the direction of W. A. Richardson. Chief Justice of the Court of Claims.
Treasury, Report of the Secretary of, on Finances. Annual. Washington.—Circulars of the Treasury Department. Washington.
War, Report of Secretary on Operations of Department of. Annual. Washington.
2. Non-Official Publications
Abbott (W. J.), Naval History of the United States. New York, 1897.
Adams (Henry), History of the United States of America. 9 vols. New York and London, 1891.
Appleton. General Guide to the United States and Canada. 8. New York, 1892.
—Appleton’s Annual Cyclopaedia. New York. Annual.
Ashley (P.), Modern Tariff History. London, 1904.
Baedeker’s United States with an Excursion into Mexico. By J. F. Mulrhead. 3rd ed. London, 1904.
Bancroft (George), History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States of America. 2 vols. London, 1882.
Bancroft (George), History of the United States. New ed. 6 vols. 8. London, 1882.
Blue Book of American Shipping. Annual. Cleveland.
Bois (W. E. B. du), The Souls of Black Folk. London, 1905.
Bruncken (E,), North American Forests and Forestry. New York, 1900.
Bryce (James), The American Commonwealth. 2 vols. 3rd ed. London, 1893–95.
Carson (H. L.), History of the Supreme Court of the United States. 8. Philadelphia, 1891.
Chancellor (W. E.), American Schools: their Administration and Supervision. London, 1905.
Chancellor (W. E.), and Hemes (F. W.), The United States, 1607–1904. 10 volumes. In progress. London and New York.
Channing (E.), The United States of America, 1765–1865. London, 1896. Guide to the Study of American History. Boston, 1897.
Chapman (S. J.), History of Trade between the United Kingdom and the United States. London, 1899.
Church (W. C.), Ulysses S. Grant and the Maintenance of American Nationality. London, 1897.
Cleveland (Grover), Presidential Problems. New York and London, 1904.
Colange (E.), The National Gazetteer; a Geographical Dictionary of the United States. 8. New York.
Coleman (L.), America. [In “International Churches,” series.] London, 1891.
Cooley (T. M.), Constitutional Law in the United States. Boston, 1880. The Constitutional Limitations on the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union. 5th ed. 8. Boston, 1883.
Curtis (F.), The Republican Party (1854–1904). London, 1904.
Curtis (G. T.), History of the Constitution of the United States. New York, 1854–58 2 vols.
Dewey (D. R.), Financial History of the United States. London, 1902
Dilke (Sir Charles Wentworth, Bart., M. P.), Greater Britain: a Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries in 1866 and 1867. 4th ed. 8. London, 1885.
Donaldson (T.), The Public Domain: its History, with Statistics, Ac. 8. Washington.
Faillie (J. A.), The National Administration of the United States. London, 1905.
Fiske (John), American Political Ideas. 8. New York, 1885.—The Critical Period in American History, 1783–1789. 8. London, 1888.—Civil Government in the United States. 8. Boston, 1890.—The American Revolution. 2 vols. London, 1897.—Old Virginia and her Neighbours. 2 vols. London, 1897.—The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, London, 1899.—New France and New England 2 vols. 1903.
Ford (H. J.), The Rise and Growth of American Politics. London, 1898.
Foreign Policy of the United States: Report of Addresses and Discussions; American Academy of Political and Social Science. Philadelphia, 1899.
Foster (R.), Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical. London, 1896. (In progress.)
Gannett (H.), North America. Vol. II. The United States. [Compendium of Geography and Travel]. London, 1898.
Giddings (F. H.), Democracy and Empire. New York, 1900.
Grinnel (G. B.), The North American Indians of To-day. London, 1900.
Harrison (B.), The Constitution and Administration of the United States of America. London, 1897.
Hart (A. B.), (editor), The American Nation: A History from Original Sources by Associated Scholars. 28 vols., of which 5 are published. New York. 1905.
Hart (A. B.), American History told by Contemporaries. 20 vols. New York, 1897–1906. —Actual Government as Applied under American Conditions. [In ‘American Citizen’ Series]. London, 1903.
Henderson (G. F. R.), Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. 2 vols. London 1900.
Henderson (J. B.), American Diplomatic Questions. London, 1901.
Hildreth (Richard), History of the United States. 6 vols. New York, 1880, &c.
Holst (A. von), Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von America 4 vols. Düsseldorf, 1873–91 English translation by J. J. Lalor and A. B. Mason. 8. Chicago, 1876, &c.
Homans (B.), The Banker’s Almanac and Register. 8. New York.
Hopkins (J. H.) History of Political Parties in the United States. New York, 1900.
Hulbert (A. B.), Historic Highways of America. 16 vols. Cleveland, Ohio. Completed n 1905.
Inman (H.), and Cody (W. F.), The Great Salt Lake Trail. London, 1898.
Jeans (J. S.), (Editor), American Industrial Conditions and Competition. London, 1902.
Johnston (Alex.), History of American Politics. New York, 1882.
Judson (H. P.), The Growth of the American Nation. London, 1897.
Kellet (J. D. J.), The American Navy. London, 1897.
Kent (J.), Commentaries on American Law (with Notes by O. W Holmes, jun.). 4 vols. 8. New York.
Knox (J. J.), History of Banking in the United States. New York, 1900.
Lalor (John J.), (Editor), Cyclopædia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States. 3 vols. New York, 1890.
Lanman (Charles), Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States during its First Century. 8. London, 1876.
Lawson ( ), American Industrial Problems. London, 1903.
Leroy-Beaulieu (P.), Les Etats Unis au XXe Siècle. Paris, 1904.
Lodge (H. C.) The War with Spain. London, 1899.
Long (J. D.), The New American Navy. 2 vols. London, 1904.
Lossing (B. J.) Cyclopædia of United States History. New York, 1883. 2 vols.
MacConnell (S. D.), History of the American Episcopal Church, 7th ed. London, 1898.
Mac Donald (W.), (Editor), Select Documents illustrative of the History of the United States, 1770–1861. London, 1899.
Maclay (E. S.), History of the United States Navy, 1775–1898. New York, 1898
McMaster (J. B.), History of the People of the United States. New York, 1883–91.
Macpherson (E.), The Political History of the United States of America during the Great Rebellion from 1860 to 1864. 8. Washington, 1864. Political Manual for 1866 and for 1868, and Handbook of Politics, published in alternate years from 1872–1892. [Now discontinued.] 8. Washington.
Macy (J.), Our Government. 8. Boston, 1886.—Party Organisation and Machinery in the United States. London, 1904.
Mahan (A. T.), The Interest of America in Sea-Power. London, 1897.—Lessons of the War with Spain. New York, 1899.
Marvin (W. L.), The American Merchant Marine. London, 1902.
Mason (E. C.), The Veto Power: its Origin, Development, and Function in the United States.
Meany (J. P.), A Study in Railway Statistics. New York, 1900.
Moore (J. M.), The Monroe Doctrine. New York, 1895.
Moray (W. C.), The Government of New York. London, 1902.
Morris (C.), The American Navy: Its Ships and their Achievements. London, 1898.
Münsterberg (H.), The Americans. London, 1905.
Myers (G.), History of Tammany Hall, 1789–1901. London, 1901.
Nelson (H. L.), The Armyof the United States. Fol. London, 1897.
Noyes (A. D.), Thirty Years of American Finance. New York, 1898.
Oetken (F.), Die Landwirthschaft in den Vereinigten Staaten. Berlin, 1893.
Olmsted (F. L.), A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856). New ed. London, 1904.
Ostrogorski (M.), Democracy and the Organisation of Political Parties. Translated by F. Clarke. 2 vols. London, 1902.
Parkman (F.), As Parkman’s works refer chiefly to Canada they are given among the books relating to the Dominion.
Paschal (George W.), The Constitution of the United States. 8. Washington, 1868.
Patton (I. H.), Natural Resources of the United States. 8. New York.
Payne (E. J.), History of the New World called America (Aborigines). 2 vols. Oxford, 1898–99.
Polenz (W. von), The Land of the Future [Eng. Trans.]. London, 1904.
Pomeroy (J. N.), Constitutional Law of the United States. Enlarged by E. H. Bennett, Boston.
Poor (Henry V.), Manual of the Railroads of the United States. 8. Annual. New York.
Porter (R. P.), Gannett (H.), and Jones (W. P.), The West, from the Census of 1880. A History of the Industrial, Commercial, Social, and Political Development of the States and Territories of the West, from 1800 to 1880. Chicago, 1882.
Powellt (L. P.), American Historic Towns. New York. In progress.
Pratt (E. A.), American Railways. London, 1903.
Réclus (Elisée), Nouvelle Geographie Universelle. Vol. XVI. Paris, 1892.
Rhodes (J. F.), History of the United States (1850–80). 7 vols. London, 1893–1906.
Roosevelt (Theodore), The Winning of the West. 4 vols. New York, 1899–96.
Ropes (J. C.), The Story of the Civil War, 1861–1865. London, 1899, [In Progress.]
Rothwell (R. P.), The Mineral Industry, its Statistics, &c. in the United States and other Countries. Annual Volumes since 1802. New York.
Rousiers (P. de), La Vie Americaine: Ranches, Fermes, et Usines. Paris, 1899.
Schmier (J.), The United States under the Constitution. 6 vols. New York, 1899.
Scoff (W. A.), The Repudiation of State Debts: A Study in the Financial History of Mississippi, Florida, and twelve other States. New York.
Scudder (H. E.), American Commonwealths. [A series of histories of separate States by various writers.] 8. Boston, 1884, &c.
Shaler (N. S.), (Editor), The United States of America. By various Writers. 2 vols. London, 1896.
Sherman (J.), Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate, and Cabinet. [Financial History.] London, 1896.
Smith (W. H.), Political History of Slavery. 2 vols. New York, 1903.
Sparks (E. E.), The United States of America. 2 vols. New York, 1905.
Spears (J. E.), The History of our American Navy. 4 vols. New York, 1897–99.
Stanwood (Edward), History of the Presidency. Boston, 1898.—American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century. 2 vols. Boston and London, 1904.
Stevens (C. E.), Sources of the Constitution of the United States. 8. London, 1894.
Taylor (H.), Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, and out of it that of the Republic of the United States. 2 vols. London. 1899.
Taussig (F. W.), Tariff History of the United States. New York.—The Silver Situation in the United States. New York
Thomas (W. H.), The American Negro. London, 1901.
Thorpe (F. N.), Constitutional History of the American People, 1776–1850. 2 vols. New York. 1898.
Tocqueville (A. de), Démocratie en Amérique. English Translation by H. Reeve. New ed. 8. London, 1889.
Trevelyan (Sir G. O.), The American Revolution. 2 Pts. London, 1898 and 1903.
Tyler (C. T.), Literary History of the American Revolution. 2 vols. London, 1897.
Van Vorst (Mrs. and Miss Marie), The Woman who Toils. London, 1903.
Wallace (J.), History of Illinois and Louisiana under French Rule, &c. Cincinnati, 1897
Watson (D. K.), History of the American Coinage. New York, 1899
Wharton (Francis), International Law of the United States. 3 vols. Washington, 1887.
Whitney (J. D.), The United States. 8. New York, 1890.
Williams (G. W.), History of the Negro Race in America. 2 vols. 8. New York, 1886.
Willoughby (W. W.), The American Constitutional System. New York, 1904.
Willson (Beckles), The New America. London. 1902.
Wilson (Woodrow), A History of the American People. 5 vols. New York, 1902.
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Wood (W. B.) and Edmonds (J. E.), History of the Civil War in the United States, 1881–65. London, 1906.
Woodburn (J. A.), The American Republic and its Government. New York.—Political Parties and Party Problems in the United States. New York.
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Keltie, J.S. (1907). United States. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270367_3
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