Palgrave Macmillan
Parent company Springer Nature | | |
Founded | 2000 | |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom | |
Headquarters location | London | |
Publication types | Books, academic journals, monographs, ebooks | |
No. of employees | 170 | |
Official website | www |
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden. Its programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. It maintains offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, Delhi, and Johannesburg.
Palgrave Macmillan was created in 2000 when St. Martin's Press in the US united with Macmillan Publishers 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.[1]
It is a subsidiary of
History
Palgrave is named after the Palgrave family. Classical historian
- Francis Turner Palgrave acted as assistant private secretary to future Prime Minister Gladstone, before creating his Palgrave's Golden Treasury[2] 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.[3] He was a banker and editor of The Economist.[4]
- Reginald Palgrave was Clerk of the House of Commonsand 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. Lawrencewas published.
Palgrave Macmillan publishes
Distribution clients
Palgrave Macmillan represents the sales, marketing and distribution interests of
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
Palgrave has been criticised for a pricing structure which "will limit readership to the privileged few", as opposed to options for "
Palgrave Pivot
Launched in 2012, Palgrave Pivot is an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan, aimed at publishing shorter, "rigorously peer-reviewed" monographs, focused on new important research across the Humanities and Social Sciences.[6]
Authors
Notable authors include (alphabetically by last name):
- Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism, and editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Collected Works[7]
- Darioush Bayandor, a former Iranian diplomat and retired United Nations regional coordinator for humanitarian aid. Bayandor wrote a revisionist analysis of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état: Iran and The CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited (2010).
- John R. Bradley, journalist and middle-east expert, and author of After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked The Middle East Revolts[8] and Inside Egypt: The Land of Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution[9]
- Juan Cole, is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and author of Engaging the Muslim World[10]
- Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson, economics editors at The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday, authors of Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014.[11]
- Andrew Gamble, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and author of The Spectre at the Feast[12]
- 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? [13]
- meta-ethical defense of ethical intuitionism.
- ISBN 978-1-137-43332-9,[14]
- Fawzia Koofi, Afghan MP, the first female candidate in 2014 Afghanistan Presidential elections, and author of The Favored Daughter,[15]
- ISBN 978-1137346490
- Juan E. Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and author of Taking a Stand [16]
- Abbas Milani, an Iranian scholar at Stanford University, who wrote The Shah (2011) about the life of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[17]
- ISBN 978-1137279248
- Philippa Perry, psychotherapist, and author of Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy[18]
- Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the advertising agency founded by David Ogilvy, and author of The King of Madison Avenue[19]
- Roger Scruton, philosopher, writer, activist and composer and author of The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought[20]
- The American Economist, and author of numerous books with Palgrave Macmillan.
- Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, author of Crisis and Recovery [21]
- U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the author of Leading the Charge[22]
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist, revivalist and lexicologist, author of Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (2003)
References
- ^ "Our history – Palgrave". www.palgrave.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-333-94953-5
- ISBN 978-0-333-78676-5
- ^ "HET: R.H. Inglis Palgrave". hetwebsite.net. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ Barbara Fister. "The Writing on the Unpaywall". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ "Palgrave Macmillan - Palgrave Pivot". Archived from the original on 12 April 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
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- ISBN 978-0-230-11381-7
- ISBN 978-1-137-43333-6. Archivedfrom the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-230-12067-9
- ISBN 978-0-230-11233-9
- ISBN 978-1-4039-7193-7.(subscription required)
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