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]
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]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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]
Marco Katz Montiel, composes music and teaches literature atMacEwan University,Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America – Noteworthy Protagonists, Palgrave Macmillan,ISBN978-1-137-43332-9[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.ISBN978-1137346490
Juan E. Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and author of Taking a Stand[16]
David Niose, president of Secular Coalition for America and American Humanist Association and author ofNonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012,ISBN978-0-230-33895-1 andFighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014,ISBN978-1137279248
Philippa Perry, psychotherapist, and author ofCouch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy[18]
Mark Terry, professor, explorer, filmmaker, author ofThe Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film and Social Change[22] andSpeaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Policy at the United Nations[23]
^The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007,ISBN978-1-4039-8952-9
^Spier, Guy (September 2014).The Education of a Value Investor. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 224.ISBN9781137278814.
^Terry, Mark (2020).The geo-doc: geomedia, documentary film, and social change. Palgrave studies in media and environmental communication. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN978-3-030-32510-7.
^Terry, Mark (2023).Speaking youth to power: influencing climate policy at the United Nations. Palgrave Studies in media and Environmental Communication. London: Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN978-3-031-14297-0.
