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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 built his academic-publishing foothold by buying a small scientific house in 1951—three-quarters of Butterworth‑Springer—which he renamed Pergamon Press and expanded through aggressive ...
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...
Multiple contemporary sources say Robert Maxwell and his Pergamon Press played a decisive commercial role in expanding scientific journals and the modern publisher-driven journal economy after World W...
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...
Robert Maxwell was a Czech‑born British publisher who built a global media and publishing empire from the 1950s to the 1980s, then died at sea in 1991 amid revelations that his companies were heavily ...
Robert Maxwell built a vast international publishing and newspaper group—Pergamon Press, Mirror Group, Macmillan and others—by aggressive acquisitions and leveraging information businesses, but his em...
Robert Maxwell held , including a reported majority stake in the newspaper Ma'ariv and large shareholdings in Israeli companies such as Teva and Scitex, and he funded ventures aimed at Soviet Jewish i...
Ghislaine Maxwell was born in England in December 1961 as the youngest daughter of media magnate Robert Maxwell and his wife Elisabeth; she grew up amid wealth and high-society life at family homes su...
Robert Maxwell built a U.S. publishing foothold primarily through large acquisitions in the 1980s—notably buying Macmillan Inc. and the Official Airline Guides (OAG) after earlier expanding Pergamon a...
’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...
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...
Available reporting traces two separate Maxwell figures in publishing: Robert Maxwell, who built Pergamon and helped commercialize peer‑review journals, and Ghislaine Maxwell, whose recent notoriety r...
assembled control of and other British publications through a long arc of opportunistic acquisitions, in printing and publishing, —including heavy borrowing and intercompany siphoning—and hands-on man...
built his publishing empire by leveraging wartime contacts to acquire and exploit backlists of scientific journals, aggressively expanding through acquisitions and public listings, cultivating a flamb...
Available reporting and secondary sources assert that ’s Secret Intelligence Service () had contacts with and that MI6 officers helped him early in his , but none of the provided documents are explici...
has long been linked in public reporting to British intelligence primarily because contemporaneous officials and later investigators reported early operational ties — notably alleged financial backing...