Palgrave Macmillan
Encyclopedia
Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company, headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom and with offices in New York
, Melbourne
, Sydney
, Hong Kong
, Delhi
, Johannesburg
. It was created in 2000 when St. Martin's Press
Scholarly and Reference in the USA and Macmillan Publishers
in the UK united their worldwide academic publishing operations. Both Macmillan and St. Martin's Press are owned by the German publishing company Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, based in Stuttgart.
The company was known as simply Palgrave until 2002, but has since been known as Palgrave Macmillan.
, and his four sons were all closely tied with Macmillan Publishers in the 19th century:
Palgrave Macmillan publishes The Statesman's Yearbook
, now in its 145th edition (2009). This classic reference work presents a political, economic and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis.
In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume.
In 2009 Palgrave Macmillan launched Palgrave Connect, their own ebook platform, making over 4,500 scholarly ebooks available to libraries.
, Worth Publishers, Sinauer Associates
, and University Science Books outside the USA, Canada, Australia and the Far East.
Palgrave Macmillan distributes Berg Publishers
and 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
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
, Continuum International Publishing Group
, David Fulton
, Gerald Duckworth and Company, W. H. Freeman
, Haymarket Books
, Henry Holt
, I B Taurus, 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, and Zed Books
.
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
, Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
. It was created in 2000 when St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...
Scholarly and Reference in the USA and Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...
in the UK united their worldwide academic publishing operations. Both Macmillan and St. Martin's Press are owned by the German publishing company Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, based in Stuttgart.
The company was known as simply Palgrave until 2002, but has since been known as Palgrave Macmillan.
History
Palgrave is named after the Palgrave family. Classical historian Sir Francis Palgrave, who founded the Public Record OfficePublic Record Office
The Public Record Office of the United Kingdom is one of the three organisations that make up the National Archives...
, and his four sons were all closely tied with Macmillan Publishers in the 19th century:
- Francis Turner PalgraveFrancis Turner PalgraveFrancis Turner Palgrave was a British critic and poet.He was born at Great Yarmouth, the eldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave, the historian and his wife Elizabeth Turner, daughter of the banker Dawson Turner. His brothers were William Gifford Palgrave, Inglis Palgrave and Reginald 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.
- Sir Inglis Palgrave or Robert Harry 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 published in 1987. He was a banker and editor of The EconomistThe EconomistThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
.
- Sir Reginald Palgrave or Sir Reginald Francis Douce was Clerk of the House of Commons and wrote a History of the House of Commons, which Macmillan published in 1869.
- William Gifford PalgraveWilliam Gifford PalgraveWilliam Gifford Palgrave was an Arabic scholar, born at Westminster, England. He was the son of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H. and Elizabeth Turner....
was a brilliant 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
The Statesman's Yearbook
The Statesman's Yearbook is a one-volume reference book providing information on the countries of the world. It is currently published by Palgrave Macmillan.-The first edition:...
, now in its 145th edition (2009). This classic reference work presents a political, economic and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis.
In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics , 2nd Edition, is an eight-volume reference work, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. It contains 5.8 million words and spans 7,680 pages with 1,872 articles. Included are 1057 new articles and, from earlier, 80 essays that are designated as...
, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume.
In 2009 Palgrave Macmillan launched Palgrave Connect, their own ebook platform, making over 4,500 scholarly ebooks available to libraries.
Distribution clients
Palgrave Macmillan represents the sales, marketing and distribution interests of W. H. FreemanW. H. Freeman
-History:The company was founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman. He had been a salesman and editor at Macmillan Publishing. Freeman's first published book was General Chemistry by Linus Pauling. Freeman was acquired by Scientific American Inc. in 1964. Holtzbrinck bought Scientific American in...
, Worth Publishers, Sinauer Associates
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....
, and University Science Books outside the USA, Canada, Australia and the Far East.
Palgrave Macmillan distributes Berg Publishers
Berg Publishers
Berg Publishers is an academic publishing company based in Oxford, England that was founded in 1983 by Marion Berghahn. Berg publishes monographs, textbooks and reference works as well as journals. Concentrations are fashion, design, anthropology, history and cultural studies...
and I.B. Tauris in the U.S. and Canada; and Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press is the university press of the University of Manchester, England and a publisher of academic books and journals. Manchester University Press has developed into an international publisher...
, Pluto Press
Pluto Press
Pluto Press is a radical, progressive, independent publisher based in London. Pluto Press specialises in "progressive, critical perspectives in politics and the social sciences", and describes itself as "one of the world’s leading radical publishers". It has published authors such as Noam Chomsky,...
, and Zed Books
Zed Books
Zed Books is an independent non-fiction book publishing company based in London.Founded in 1977 under the name Zed Press, Zed publishes academic books covering areas such as politics, economics, gender studies, development studies, and the environment....
in the U.S.
In Australia Palgrave represents both the Macmillan Group, including Palgrave Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Publishing Group is an international publishing company that publishes academic journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine...
, and a variety of other academic publishers, including Acumen Publishing, Atlas & Co, Bedford-St. Martin's
Bedford-St. Martin's
' is a United States publishing company, specializing in college humanities textbooks. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the Stuttgart, Germany-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Editorial offices are located in Boston and New...
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press was founded in 1933 to aid in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's purpose of furthering the advance and spread of scientific knowledge....
, Continuum International Publishing Group
Continuum International Publishing Group
The Continuum International Publishing Group is a publisher of books, with its editorial offices in London and New York City. It had been owned by Nova Capital Management since 2005...
, David Fulton
David Fulton
David Paul Fulton is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman, who occasionally bowled left-arm orthodox spin. He played first-class cricket for Kent for 15 years until 2006...
, Gerald Duckworth and Company, W. H. Freeman
W. H. Freeman
-History:The company was founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman. He had been a salesman and editor at Macmillan Publishing. Freeman's first published book was General Chemistry by Linus Pauling. Freeman was acquired by Scientific American Inc. in 1964. Holtzbrinck bought Scientific American in...
, Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books is a non-profit left-wing book publisher and distributor. It is published by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change...
, Henry Holt
Henry Holt
Henry Holt , was a book publisher and author.Henry Holt was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 3, 1840.He graduated from Yale in 1862....
, I B Taurus, Learning Matters, Lynne Reiner Publishers, Macquarie Library, New Internationalist
New Internationalist
New Internationalist is a magazine from New Internationalist Publications, a co-operative-run publisher based in Oxford, England. It has editorial and sales offices in Toronto, Canada; Adelaide, Australia; Christchurch, New Zealand; and New York, USA....
, The New Press
The New Press
The New Press is a not-for-profit, United States-based publishing house that operates in the public interest. It was established in 1990 as an alternative to large commercial publishers, and is supported financially by various foundations, groups and corporations including the Ford Foundation, the...
, Ocean Press, Perseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group is an American publishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. It was named Publisher of the Year in 2007 by Publishers Weekly magazine for its role in taking on publishers formerly distributed by Publishers Group West and acquiring Avalon Publishing Group.In January...
, Pluto Press
Pluto Press
Pluto Press is a radical, progressive, independent publisher based in London. Pluto Press specialises in "progressive, critical perspectives in politics and the social sciences", and describes itself as "one of the world’s leading radical publishers". It has published authors such as Noam Chomsky,...
, Routledge
Routledge
Routledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
/Taylor and Francis
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom which publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.- Overview :...
, Saqi Books
Saqi Books
Saqi Books is an independent UK publisher co-founded in 1984 by author and feminist Mai Ghoussoub to "print quality academic and general interest books on the Middle East". It now claims to be "the UK's largest publisher of Middle Eastern and Arabic titles"...
, Scion Publishers, Seven Stories Press, Sinauer Associates
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....
, Tilde University Press, University Science Books, and Zed Books
Zed Books
Zed Books is an independent non-fiction book publishing company based in London.Founded in 1977 under the name Zed Press, Zed publishes academic books covering areas such as politics, economics, gender studies, development studies, and the environment....
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Authors
Current Palgrave Macmillan authors include:- Kenneth RomanKenneth RomanKenneth Roman, born September 6, 1930 Boston, Massachusetts, is a former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the advertising agency founded by David Ogilvy. He joined the firm in 1963 and served as Chairman from 1985 to 1989. After 26 years with the firm, he joined American Express in a senior...
, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the advertising agency founded by David OgilvyDavid OgilvyDavid Mackenzie Ogilvy, CBE, , was an advertising executive. He has often been called "The Father of Advertising." In 1962, Time called him "the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry." He was known for a career of expanding the bounds of both creativity and morality.-Early life...
, and author of The King of Madison Avenue
- Tony Zinni, is a retired four-star General in the United States Marine CorpsUnited States Marine CorpsThe United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the author of Leading the Charge
- Andrew GambleAndrew GambleAndrew Gamble FBA, AcSS, FRSA is a British author and academic. Since January 2007 he has been Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge...
, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and author of The Spectre at the Feast
- Jonathan BateJonathan BateJonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism...
, is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, RomanticismRomanticismRomanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
and EcocriticismEcocriticismEcocriticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view where all sciences come together to analyze the environment and brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation...
, and editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Collected Works
- Roger ScrutonRoger ScrutonRoger Vernon Scruton is a conservative English philosopher and writer. He is the author of over 30 books, including Art and Imagination , Sexual Desire , The Aesthetics of Music , and A Political Philosophy: Arguments For Conservatism...
, philosopher, writer, activist and composer and author of The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
- Juan ColeJuan ColeJohn Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole is an American scholar, public intellectual, and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on...
, is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, and author of Engaging the Muslim World
- Darioush BayandorDarioush BayandorDarioush Bayandor 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 1990s before retiring to Switzerland where he writes and consults.Born in Iran,...
, a former Iranian diplomat and retired United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
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).
- Abbas MilaniAbbas MilaniAbbas Malekzadeh Milani is an Iranian-American historian and author. Milani is a visiting professor of Political Science and the director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University's...
, an Iranian scholar in California, wrote The Shah (2011) about the life of Mohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, Shah of Persia , ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979...
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