Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861

Click on the title to examine the digitized book
(Some books are in scanning production; links will become live as soon as scanning is completed)

Burritt, Elihu. The Year-Book of the Nations, for 1856. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

Elihu Burritt. The Year-Book of the Nations, for 1856. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1856. p. 8.

A peace activist, Elihu Burritt undertook the more ambitious and difficult project of generating national statistics for every country deemed notable in the world.

Read a passage from the book

Authorities / from which this Work has been compiled.

Parliamentary Returns.
McCulloch’s Statistics.
Darton’s Statistical Tables.
Banfield’s Statistical Companion.
Porter’s Progress of the Nation.
Parliamentary Statistical Returns of Foreign Nations.
Census of Great Britain in 1851.
Horace Mann’s Report on Education in Great Britain.
Journal of the Statistical Society.
British Almanac and Companion.
Fenn on the Funds.
The “Economist.”
The “Christian Times.”
Edwards’ Statistical View.
Census of the United States.
American Almanac.
President’s message.
Reports of the Departments.
Annuaire Economique de France.
Almanach de Gotha.
Jahrbuch fur Volkswirthshaft and Statistik von Otto Hubener.
Statistical Survey of all Nations, by Otto Hubener.
Auswise uber der Handel von Oesterreich.
Etudes sur les Forces productives de la Russie.