Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and tradepublishing company headquartered in theLondon 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 andJohannesburg.

Palgrave Macmillan

Parent company	Springer Nature
Founded	2000
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	London
Publication types	Books,academic journals,monographs,ebooks
No. of employees	170
Official website	www.palgrave.com

Palgrave Macmillan was created in 2000 whenSt. Martin's Press in the US united withMacmillan Publishers in the UK to combine their worldwide academic publishing operations. The company was known simply asPalgrave until 2002, but has since been known as Palgrave Macmillan.^[1]

It is a subsidiary ofSpringer Nature. Until 2015, it was part of theMacmillan Group and therefore wholly owned by the German publishing companyHoltzbrinck Publishing Group (which still owns a controlling interest in Springer Nature). As part of Macmillan, it was headquartered at the Macmillan campus inKings Cross, London with other Macmillan companies includingPan Macmillan,Nature Publishing Group andMacmillan Education, having moved fromBasingstoke in 2014.

Palgrave is named after the Palgrave family. Classical historianSir Francis Palgrave, who founded thePublic 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 MinisterWilliam Ewart 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 ofThe Palgrave Dictionary of Political Economy, which was first published by Macmillan in 1894, 1896 and 1899 and the inspiration forThe New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics was published in 1987.^[3] He was a banker and editor ofThe Economist.^[4]
• Reginald Palgrave wasClerk of the House of Commons and wroteA History of the House of Commons, which Macmillan published in 1869.
• William Gifford Palgrave was anArabic 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 byT. E. Lawrence was published.

Palgrave Macmillan publishesThe Statesman's Yearbook, an annualreference work which gives a political, economic and social overview of every country of the world. In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan publishedThe New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited bySteven N. Durlauf andLawrence E. Blume. In 2009, Palgrave Macmillan made over 4,500 scholarly ebooks available to libraries.

Palgrave Macmillan represents the sales, marketing and distribution interests ofW. H. Freeman, Worth Publishers,Sinauer Associates, and University Science Books outside the US, Canada, Australia and the Far East.

Palgrave Macmillan previously distributedI.B. Tauris in the U.S. and Canada; andManchester University Press,Pluto Press, andZed Books in the U.S.

In Australia, Palgrave represents both the Macmillan Group, including Palgrave Macmillan andNature Publishing Group, and a variety of other academic publishers, including Acumen Publishing, Atlas & Co,Bedford-St. Martin's,Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,Continuum International Publishing Group,David Fulton,Gerald Duckworth and Company,W. H. Freeman,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/Taylor and Francis, Saqi Books, Scion Publishers, Seven Stories Press,Sinauer Associates, Tilde University Press, University Science Books, andZed 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 byDOAJ,Unpaywall andDOAB.^[5]

Launched in 2012, Palgrave Pivot is animprint of Palgrave Macmillan, aimed at publishing shorter, "rigorously peer-reviewed" monographs, focused on new important research across the Humanities and Social Sciences.^[6]

Notable authors include (alphabetically by last name):

• Jonathan Bate, is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar ofShakespeare,Romanticism andEcocriticism, and editor ofThe RSC Shakespeare: The Collected Works^[7]
• Darioush Bayandor, a former Iranian diplomat and retiredUnited Nations regional coordinator for humanitarian aid. Bayandor wrote a revisionist analysis of the1953 Iranian coup d'état:Iran and The CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited (2010).
• John R. Bradley, journalist and middle-east expert, and author ofAfter the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked The Middle East Revolts^[8] andInside Egypt: The Land of Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution^[9]
• Juan Cole, is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at theUniversity of Michigan, and author ofEngaging the Muslim World^[10]
• Larry Elliot andDan Atkinson, economics editors atThe Guardian andThe Mail on Sunday, authors ofGoing South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014.^[11]
• Andrew Gamble, Professor of Politics atCambridge University and author ofThe 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 ofObama and the Middle-East: The End of America's Moment?^[13]
• Michael Huemer, professor of philosophy atUniversity of Colorado, Boulder. Books includeThe Problem of Political Authority, a defense of philosophicallibertarianism andanarchism; andEthical Intuitionism, ameta-ethical defense ofethical intuitionism.
• Marco Katz Montiel, composes music and teaches literature atMacEwan University,Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America – Noteworthy Protagonists, Palgrave Macmillan,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]
• John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, and author ofJohn F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, 2013.ISBN 978-1137346490
• Juan E. Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and author of Taking a Stand^[16]
• Abbas Milani, an Iranian scholar atStanford University, who wroteThe Shah (2011) about the life ofMohammad Reza Pahlavi.^[17]
• David Niose, president of Secular Coalition for America and American Humanist Association and author ofNonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012,ISBN 978-0-230-33895-1 andFighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014,ISBN 978-1137279248
• Philippa Perry, psychotherapist, and author ofCouch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy^[18]
• Kenneth Roman, former CEO ofOgilvy & Mather Worldwide, the advertising agency founded byDavid Ogilvy, and author ofThe King of Madison Avenue^[19]
• Roger Scruton, philosopher, writer, activist and composer and author ofThe Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought^[20]
• Michael Szenberg, Professor of economics atTouro College, editor emeritus ofThe American Economist, and author of numerous books with Palgrave Macmillan.
• Mark Terry, professor, explorer, filmmaker, author ofThe Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film and Social Change^[21] andSpeaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Policy at the United Nations^[22]
• Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, author of Crisis and Recovery^[23]
• Tony Zinni, a retired four-star General in theUnited States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief ofU.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the author of Leading the Charge^[24]
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist, revivalist and lexicologist, author ofLanguage Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (2003)

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