"The Mond and Brunner families, well known to business historians as pioneers of the British chemical industry, are being studied here for the first time as philanthropists, and it is an astonishing story that Thomas Adam has to tell. Several generations of the Monds gave the wealth they had made in chemicals away most generously for the fine arts and museums, for hospitals and medical research, and for archaeological institutes and scientific explorations. This book will be indispensable not only to all scholars of philanthropy but also of family history and of transnational socio-economic networks that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe and North America." (V.R. Berghahn, Columbia University, USA) "This great scholarly achievement opens the door to a continent of philanthropy that, as the history of the German-Jewish-British Mond family, belongs to the most remarkable stories of its kind. An expert in the field of transnational history, Thomas Adam, explores the vast contributions of Ludwig, Alfred, and Robert Mond to science, archaeology, and infant health care, illuminates the ill-fated art donation to the London National Gallery and the well-placed commitment to the Zionist cause." (Frank Trommler, Professor Emeritus of German, University of Pennsylvania, USA).