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Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the
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. Its programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. It maintains offices in London, New York,
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. Palgrave Macmillan was created in 2000 when St. Martin's Press in the US united with
Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publi ...
in the UK to combine their worldwide academic publishing operations. The company was known simply as Palgrave until 2002, but has since been known as Palgrave Macmillan. It is a subsidiary of Springer Nature. Until 2015, it was part of the Macmillan Group and therefore wholly owned by the German publishing company Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (which still owns a controlling interest in Springer Nature). As part of Macmillan, it was headquartered at the Macmillan campus in Kings Cross
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with other Macmillan companies including
Pan Macmillan Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Pan Books began as an independent publisher, ...
, Nature Publishing Group and Macmillan Education, having moved from Basingstoke,
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England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
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in 2014.


History

Palgrave is named after the Palgrave family. Classical historian Sir Francis Palgrave, who founded the Public Record Office, and his four sons were all closely tied with Macmillan Publishers in the 19th century: * Francis Turner Palgrave acted as assistant private secretary to future Prime Minister Gladstone, before creating his Palgrave's Golden Treasury in the English Language in 1861, which was published by Macmillan and became a standard work for almost a century. * Inglis Palgrave was the editor of ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Political Economy'', which was first published by Macmillan in 1894, 1896 and 1899 and the inspiration for ''The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'' was published in 1987. He was a banker and editor of ''
The Economist ''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Eco ...
''. * Reginald Palgrave was
Clerk of the House of Commons The Clerk of the House of Commons is the chief executive of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and before 1707 of the House of Commons of England. The formal name for the position held by the Clerk of the House of C ...
and wrote ''A History of the House of Commons'', which Macmillan published in 1869. * William Gifford Palgrave was an Arabic scholar. He wrote a two-volume work describing his travels and adventures for Macmillan called Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1865), which was the most widely read book on the region until the account by T. E. Lawrence was published. Palgrave Macmillan publishes '' The Statesman's Yearbook'', an annual reference work which gives a political, economic and social overview of every country of the world. In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published ''
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics'' (2018), 3rd ed., is a twenty-volume reference work on economics published by Palgrave Macmillan. It contains around 3,000 entries, including many classic essays from the original Inglis Palgrave Dictio ...
'', 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. In 2009 Palgrave Macmillan made over 4,500 scholarly ebooks available to libraries.


Distribution clients

Palgrave Macmillan represents the sales, marketing and distribution interests of
W. H. Freeman W. H. Freeman and Company is an imprint of Macmillan Higher Education, a division of Macmillan Publishers. Macmillan publishes monographs and textbooks for the sciences under the imprint. History The company was founded in 1946 by William H. ...
, Worth Publishers,
Sinauer Associates Sinauer Associates, Inc. is a publisher of college-level textbooks. It was started in 1969 by Andrew D. Sinauer and has since grown to be an internationally recognized publisher of seminal scientific works. References External linksOfficial we ...
, and University Science Books outside the US, Canada, Australia and the Far East. Palgrave Macmillan previously distributed I.B. Tauris in the U.S. and Canada; and Manchester University Press, Pluto Press, and Zed Books in the U.S. In Australia Palgrave represents both the Macmillan Group, including Palgrave Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group, and a variety of other academic publishers, including Acumen Publishing, Atlas & Co,
Bedford-St. Martin's Bedford/St. Martin's is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the Macmillan Publishers, which is in turn owned by t ...
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Continuum International Publishing Group, David Fulton,
Gerald Duckworth and Company Duckworth Books, originally Gerald Duckworth and Company, founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth, is a British publisher.W. H. Freeman W. H. Freeman and Company is an imprint of Macmillan Higher Education, a division of Macmillan Publishers. Macmillan publishes monographs and textbooks for the sciences under the imprint. History The company was founded in 1946 by William H. ...
, Haymarket Books, Henry Holt, I.B. Tauris, Learning Matters, Lynne Reiner Publishers, Macquarie Library, New Internationalist, The New Press, Ocean Press, Perseus Books Group, Pluto Press,
Routledge Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law ...
/ Taylor and Francis, Saqi Books, Scion Publishers, Seven Stories Press,
Sinauer Associates Sinauer Associates, Inc. is a publisher of college-level textbooks. It was started in 1969 by Andrew D. Sinauer and has since grown to be an internationally recognized publisher of seminal scientific works. References External linksOfficial we ...
, Tilde University Press, University Science Books, and Zed Books. Palgrave has been criticised for a pricing structure which "will limit readership to the privileged few", as opposed to options for " open access without tears" offered by
DOAJ The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA). It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. The proj ...
, Unpaywall and DOAB.


Palgrave Pivot

Launched in 2012, Palgrave Pivot is an
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of Palgrave Macmillan, aimed at publishing shorter, "rigorously peer-reviewed" monographs, focused on new important research across the Humanities and Social Sciences.


Authors

Notable authors include (alphabetically by last name): *
Jonathan Bate Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate, CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 26 June 1958), is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, poet, playwright, novelist and scholar. He specialises in Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is Foundation Prof ...
, is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of
Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
,
Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
and
Ecocriticism Ecocriticism is the study of literature and ecology from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature. It wa ...
, and editor of ''The RSC Shakespeare: The Collected Works'' *
Darioush Bayandor Darioush Bayandor ( fa, داریوش بایندر) is a former Iranian diplomat and official who worked for the government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Following the Iranian Revolution, he left Iran to work for the United Nations in the 1980s and ...
, a former Iranian diplomat and retired
United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoni ...
regional coordinator for humanitarian aid. Bayandor wrote a revisionist analysis of the
1953 Iranian coup d'état The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état ( fa, کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of ...
: ''Iran and The CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited'' (2010). *
John R. Bradley John R. Bradley (born 6 June 1970Contemporary Authors database) is a British author and journalist who has written on Middle East issues for numerous publications, including '' The Economist'', ''The Forward'', '' Newsweek'', '' The New Republic ...
, journalist and middle-east expert, and author of ''After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked The Middle East Revolts'' and ''Inside Egypt: The Land of Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution'' * Juan Cole, is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the
University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
, and author of ''Engaging the Muslim World * Larry Elliot and
Dan Atkinson Dan Atkinson (born 1961 in Brighton) is a British journalist and author. Atkinson has been an independent writer and commentator on financial and economic affairs since 2017 after he had been financial editor of Sticky Content since 2013. Befo ...
, economics editors at ''The Guardian'' and ''The Mail on Sunday'', authors of ''Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014.'' * Andrew Gamble, Professor of Politics at
Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
and author of ''The Spectre at the Feast'' * Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is chair of the Middle Eastern Center. He is the author of ''Obama and the Middle-East: The End of America's Moment?'' * Michael Huemer, professor of philosophy at
University of Colorado, Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado s ...
. Books include The Problem of Political Authority, a defense of philosophical libertarianism and anarchism; and Ethical Intuitionism, a meta-ethical defense of ethical intuitionism. * Marco Katz Montiel, composes music and teaches literature at
MacEwan University , mottoeng = , type = Public University , established = , closed = , founder = , parent = , academic_affiliations = AUCC, ACCC, AACTI ...
, ''Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America - Noteworthy Protagonists'', Palgrave Macmillan, , *
Fawzia Koofi Fawzia Koofi ( fa, فوزیه کوفی, ; born in 1975) is an Afghan politician, writer, and women's rights activist. Originally from Badakhshan province, Koofi was recently a member of the Afghan delegation negotiating peace with the Taliban i ...
, Afghan MP, the first female candidate in 2014 Afghanistan Presidential elections, and author of The Favored Daughter, * John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, and author of ''John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon,'' 2013. * Juan E. Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and author of Taking a Stand *
Abbas Milani Abbas Malekzadeh Milani ( fa, عباس ملک‌زاده میلانی; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of Political Science, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Ira ...
, an Iranian scholar at
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...
, who wrote ''The Shah'' (2011) about the life of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. *
David Niose David Niose (born August 20, 1962) is an attorney, author, and activist who has served as president of the American Humanist Association and the Secular Coalition for America. In these positions he has pursued legal and advocacy efforts on behal ...
, president of Secular Coalition for America and American Humanist Association and author of ''Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, and ''Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, * Philippa Perry, psychotherapist, and author of ''Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy'' * Kenneth Roman, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the advertising agency founded by David Ogilvy, and author of ''The King of Madison Avenue'' * Roger Scruton, philosopher, writer, activist and composer and author of ''The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought'' *
Michael Szenberg Michael Szenberg (born 1934) is a professor emeritus and a former Chairman of the Finance and Economics department at Lubin School of Business in Pace University, New York. He is the author and editor of 22 books on economics, and was the edito ...
, Professor of economics at Touro College, editor emeritus of '' The American Economist'', and author of numerous books with Palgrave Macmillan. * Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, author of Crisis and Recovery *
Tony Zinni Anthony Charles Zinni (born September 17, 1943) is a former United States Marine Corps general and a former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). From 2001 to 2003, he served as a special envoy for the United Stat ...
, a retired four-star General in the
United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through c ...
and a former Commander in Chief of
U.S. Central Command The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM or CENTCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense. It was established in 1983, taking over the previous responsibilities of the Rapid Deployment Joint Tas ...
(CENTCOM), and the author of Leading the ChargeLeading the Charge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, * Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist, revivalist and lexicologist, author of Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (2003)


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