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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 the 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
The official publications of the United States are in general issued by the Government Departments and Bureaus concerned; the Department of Agriculture, the General Land Office, the Census Bureau, the Department of Commerce and Labor, the Treasury, the Department of the Interior, the Geological Survey (Statistical Department), the Mint, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Post Office, the Navy Department, the War Department, the Bureau of Education.
Statistical Atlas of the United States. Published by Census Bureau. Washington 1915.
Geography, Travel, Exploration. Descriptive Government Publications, many illustrated. Sold by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, 1914.
Estimated Valuation of National Wealth, 1850–1912. (Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.) Washington, 1915.
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington. Annual.
2. Non-Official Publications
American Labour Year-Book. New York. First issue, 1916.
Abbott (L.), America in the Making. New Haven and London, 1912.
Adams (G. F.), The Monroe Doctrine. Boston, 1914.
Adams (Henry), History of the United States of America. 9 vols. New York and London, 1891.
Allen (G. W), A Naval History of the American Revolution. Boston and New York, 1913.
Avery (E. M.), A History of the United States and its People. Vols. 1–7. Cleveland and London, 1908 and 1912.
American Statesmen Series. About 38 vols. Boston, 1880–1907.
Bacon (C. W.), The American Plan of Government. New York, 1916.
Baedeker’s United States with Excursions into Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Alaska, 4th ed. Leipzig, 1909.
Bancroft (George), History of the United States. New ed. 6 vols. 8. London, 1882.
Bassett (J. S.), A Short History of the United States. New York, 1913.
Bigelow (John), American Policy. New York, 1913.
Bingham (Hiram), The Monroe Doctrine: an Obsolete Shibboleth. London, 1913.
Brawley (B. G.), A Short History of the American Negro. New York, 1913.
Bryce ( Viscount), The American Commonwealth. 2 vols. New ed. London, 1911.
Channing (E.), The United States of America, 1765–1805. London, 1896.—A History of the United States. Vols. 1–4. Now York, 1905–17.—Channing (E.) and Hart (A.B.), Guide to the Study of American History. Boston, 1895.
Cleveland (F. A.), Organised Democracy. An Introduction to the Study of American Politics. New York and London, 1913.
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Corwin (Edward 8.), The President’s Control of Foreign Relations. Oxford, 1917.
Croly (H.), The Now American Progressive Democracy. New York, 1916.
Dewey (D. R.), Financial History of the United States. London, 1902.
Dunlop (W.), A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. New Editiou by F. W. Bayley and Chas. E. Godspeed. Boston, 1918.
Dunning (W. A.), The British Empire and the United States. London, 1914.
Epochs of American History. 3 vols. Revised ed., 1905.
d’ Estournelles de Constant (Baron P.), Les Etat-Unis d’Amérique. Paris, 1913.—English Translation, ‘America and her Problems.’ New York, 1915.
Evans (M. F.), Black and White in the Southern States. London, 1915.
Farrand (Max), The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. New Haven and London, 1913.—The Development of the United States. London, 1919.
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Foster (R.), Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical. London. In progress.
Harper’s Encyclopaedia of United States History. 2 vols. New York and London. 1002.
Hart (A. E.), Actual Government as Applied under American Conditions. [In [American Citizen’ Series]. London, 1903.—Social and Economic Forces in American Histoiy. Chicago and Cambridge, 1914.—The Monroe Doctrine. London, 1916.
Hart (A. B.), (editor), The American Nation: A History from Original Sources by Associated Scholars. 27 vols. New York, 1904–1908.—American History told by Contemporaries. 4 vols. New York, 1897–1906.
Haskin (F. J.), The American Government. Philadelphia and London, 1912.
Hepburn (A. B.), History of Currency in the United States. New York, 1915.
Holcombe (A. N.), State Government in the United States. London, 1917.
Huidekoper (F. L.), The Military Unpreparedness of the United States. New York, 1915.
Hosmer (J. K.), The American Civil War. London, 1913.
Hunt (G.), The Department of State of the United States, its History and Functions, London and New Haven, 1914.
Johnson (S. C.), A History of Emigration from the United Kingdom to North America, London, 1913.
Johnson (W. F.), America’s Foreign Relations, 2 vols. London, 1916.
Johnston (Alex.), History of American Politics. New York, 1898.—American Political History (ed. by Woodburn), 2 vols, 1905–07.
Johnston (E. R.) and others, History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States. Washington, 1915.
Jusserand (J. J.), Eu Amérique Jadis et Maintenant. Paris, 1918.
Kemmerer (W.), Postal Savings: An Historical and Critical Study of the Postal Savings Bank System in the United States. Princeton, 1918.
Kennedy (J. M.), Imperial America. Loudon, 1914.
King (W. I.), The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States. New York, 1916.
Kraus (H.), Die Monroedoktrin, in ihren Beziehungen zur Amerikanischen Diplomatic und zum Völkerrecht. Berlin, 1913.
Leroy-Beaulieu (F.), Les Etats Unis au XXe Siècle. Paris, 1904.
Lodge (H. C.) The War with Spain. London, 1899.—One Hundred Years of Peace. London 1913.
Low (A. M.), The American People: a Study in National Psychology. 2 vols. London, 1910 and 1912.
McLaughlin (A. C.), The History of the American Nation. New York, 1913.
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. 6 vols. N. York, 1883–1906.
Mahan (A. T.), The Interest of America in Sea-Power. London, 1897.—Lessons of the War with Spain. New York, 1899.
Moore (J. B), Digest of International Law. 8 vols. Washington, 1906.—American Diplomacy. New York and London, 1905.
Munro (W. B.), A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States. London, 1915.
Phayre (Ignatius), America’s Day. London, 1918
Potey (Arthur P.), Federal Systems of the United States and the British Empire, London, 1913.
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Beyes (R.), The Two Americas. New York, 1914.
Bhodss (J. F.), History of the United States (1850–80). 7 vols. London, 1893–1906.—History of the Civil War. London, 1919.
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Washington, 1909.—The Essentials of American Constitutional Law. London, 1918.
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Winsor (Justin), (editor), Narrative and Critical History of America. 8 vols. New York, 1884–89.
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Woodburn (J. A.), The American Republic and its Government. Revised edition. London, 1918.
Woodson (C. G.), A Century of Negro Migration. Washington, 1918.
Wright (Carrol D.), The Industrial Evolution of the United States. New York, 1913.
Wu Ting Fang, America and the Americans. London, 1914.
Young (J. T.), The New American Government and its Work. London, 1915.
Ziteblin (C.), American Municipal Progress. London, 1916.
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Scott Keltie, J., Epstein, M. (1919). United States. In: Scott Keltie, J., Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270480_9
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