A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain, Germany, and the US. This constitutes an important chapter in business, economic, and technological history because synthetic dyes - invented in 1857 - represent the first time that a scientific discovery quickly...

"Over the past four decades, China has evolved from being largely isolated and irrelevant to the world economy to having the world's second-largest economy, and it is widely expected to have the largest economy in the near future. In the process, China went from having a largely agricultural...