About David Monod David Monod is professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. He is author of Store Wars: Retailers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939. Books by David Monod Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925 by (author) David Monod Settling Scores German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953 by (author) David Monod The Soul of Pleasure Sentiment and Sensation in Nineteenth-Century American Mass Entertainment by (author) David Monod