Mercury levels in the world's rivers have more than doubled since the pre-industrial era, according to new research from ...

In this telling, high tariffs fueled America’s nineteenth-century industrial rise ... to 50 percent on manufactured imports), these were at best incidental to industrial growth—and likely harmful to ...

AS WE showed in a previous blog post, Europe went through a period of astonishing growth after about ... It lasted from roughly 1760 to 1850. The Second Industrial Revolution used more advanced ...