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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
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.
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Allen (G. W), A Naval History of the American Revolution. Boston and New York, 1913.
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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.
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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.
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English Translation, ‘America and her Problems.’ New York, 1915.
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Farrand (Max), The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. New Haven and London, 1913.
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Johnston (E. R.) and others, History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States. Washington, 1915
Kennedy (J. M.), Imperial America. London, 1914.
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Kraus (H.), Die Monroedoktrin, in ihren Beziehungen zur Amerikanischen Diplomatie und zum Völkerrecht. Berlin, 1913.
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MeMaster (J. B.), History of the People of the United States. 6 vols. New York, 1883–1906.
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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.
Poley (Arthur P.), Federal Systems of the United States and the British Empire. London, 1913.
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Sumichrast (F. C. de) Americans and the Britons. London, 1915.
Taft (W. H.), Popular Government. New Haven, 1913.—Our Chief Magistrate and his Powers. New York, 1917.
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Congressional Government. New edition. London, 1914.
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Wright (Carrol D.), The Industrial Evolution of the United States. New York, 1913.
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Keltie, J.S., Epstein, M. (1918). United States. In: Keltie, J.S., Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270473_9
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