In The Devil's Garden a Sinful History of Forbidden Food

The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting centre, from the author of The Habsburgs

This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned themselves to take advantage of the war economy and how they used different business and marketing strategies to create the market and demand for scholarly publications.