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Robert Maxwell had a formal, business relationship with McGraw‑Hill in 1989: the two companies formed a 50/50 joint venture combining school‑book operations and signed a 15‑year standstill agreement t...
Robert Maxwell’s publishing empire in the 1980s and early 1990s included several imprints and companies that produced textbooks and school materials — most prominently Macmillan (U.S.) after Maxwell a...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. textbook holdings centered on his 1988–89 acquisitions and deals: he bought Macmillan Inc. in 1988 for roughly $2.6 billion and acquired Science Research Associates (SRA) from IB...
Robert Maxwell’s principal and documented U.S. school‑textbook holding was , which he acquired in the late 1980s and which formed the core of his U.S. textbook interests; that asset was later folded i...
Reporting and commentary allege Robert Maxwell used his ownership of major publishing houses to influence schoolbook content, but contemporary fact-checking and publisher statements find that he inser...
Robert Maxwell, the British media proprietor who died in 1991, entered a formal joint venture with McGraw-Hill in 1989 that combined major K–12 textbook assets into Macmillan/McGraw‑Hill School Publis...
Robert Maxwell’s entry into U.S. educational publishing via major acquisitions and a 1989 joint venture with McGraw‑Hill created a that plausibly affected which textbooks circulated in schools, but th...
Robert Maxwell’s involvement in the textbook and academic-publishing world centered on the acquisition and expansion of Macmillan and Pergamon, giving him control of major educational and scientific i...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. educational-publishing holdings clustered around two principal assets: Science Research Associates (SRA), which he bought from IBM and called “the centerpiece” of his U.S. educat...
The evidence shows Robert Maxwell and his publishing interests were significantly involved in textbook and academic journal publishing in the 1980s, but . Contemporary reporting and later analyses doc...
Robert Maxwell’s death in November 1991 triggered the rapid unravelling of his media empire: Maxwell Communication Corporation (MCC) and related holdings effectively collapsed, revelations followed th...
Robert Maxwell built a U.S. education-publishing footprint by buying Macmillan Inc. in 1988 and acquiring Science Research Associates earlier, then merging Macmillan’s K–12 units with McGraw‑Hill in a...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. textbook footprint in the late 1980s and early 1990s centered on his acquisition of Macmillan Inc. (which included sizable school and college operations) and targeted purchases c...
U.S. educators, publishers and policymakers reacted to Robert Maxwell’s push into U.S. educational publishing through a mix of commercial consolidation, legal challenges, and later remediation tied to...
’s death in November 1991 triggered a rapid unravelling of his publishing empire that directly affected school and academic publishing—banks called in loans, assets including Pergamon and parts of wer...
McGraw‑Hill had a formal business relationship with Robert Maxwell—a 1989 joint venture and standstill agreement—but there is no sourced evidence in the reporting provided that McGraw‑Hill carried out...
Robert Maxwell built a sprawling, diversified publishing empire whose core holdings—most consistently documented in the sources provided—include Pergamon Press, the Mirror Group newspapers (notably th...
Robert Maxwell’s ownership shifted several U.S. textbook imprints into larger, consolidated corporate structures and prompted aggressive commercial strategies — notably the 1989 Macmillan/McGraw-Hill ...
Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991 triggered the collapse and breakup of his publishing empire, including Macmillan, which was sold off in pieces amid revelations of massive debt and fraud; . Investigatio...
was founded by and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; contemporary corporate histories and the company’s own materials identify those two men as the co‑founders and trace the company’s growth ...