Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861

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Pitkin, Timothy. A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Including also an Account of Banks, Manufactures and Internal Trade and Improvements: Together with that of the Revenues and Expenditures of the General Government: Accompanied with Numerous Tables. New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1835.

Timothy Pitkin. A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Including also an Account of Banks, Manufactures and Internal Trade and Improvements: Together with that of the Revenues and Expenditures of the General Government: Accompanied with Numerous Tables. New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1835. p. 127.

Between 1816 and 1835 Pitkin could assemble much more economic data, to generate many more tables of statistics establishing the United States as the “second commercial nation” behind Britain.

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In presenting the public with a new and enlarged edition of our Statistics of the United States, we beg leave to observe, that the last edition was published in 1817, just after Europe had emerged from a long and unexampled war — a war, in which the United States themselves at last, became involved.

Since that period, this country has been placed in a new situation, as the European nations on the return of peace, returned to their old systems of commercial and colonial policy. This has driven the Americans to look more to their own internal means and resources. And as the population of the United States, has also, since that time, nearly doubled, it cannot be deemed an uninteresting subject of inquiry, whether, in this situation, the wealth and resources of the country have kept pace with its population.