Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher, serving learning and training in higher education and the professional world. It has a broad publishing program which includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. Palgrave Macmillan is focused on publishing in the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business.
The Statesman’s Yearbook has been published every year since 1864 without exception.
Combining the publishing and heritage of Macmillan Press, the British based publisher, and St. Martin’s Press Scholarly & Reference in the United States, Palgrave Macmillan was formed in 2000 and aims to be the academic publisher of choice for authors and customers around the world.
Palgrave is a name long associated with Macmillan, with publishing and the highest intellectual achievement. Francis Turner Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, published by Macmillan in 1861, was a standard poetry anthology for almost a century. The Palgrave Dictionary of Political Economy by R. H. Inglis Palgrave was published by Macmillan in 1899 and became a landmark in its field. It was the inspiration for The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, which was published in 1987 and was the first in a continuing line of major works.
Palgrave Macmillan has a substantial and renowned list of works at all levels. These include scholarly monographs and widely-read textbooks including leading lists in the Social Sciences. The company has a fast-growing journals program and also publishes books for the professional business reader. Palgrave Macmillan publishes a diverse range of serious nonfiction titles for the general reader and has a highly prestigious reference list, including one of the best known reference works worldwide, The Statesman’s Yearbook which has been published since 1864.
Palgrave Macmillan has also published a large number of Nobel Prize winners. These include the Nobel Prize winners for chemistry Paul Crutzen (1995) and Roald Hoffmann (1981), the economic gurus Robert Lucas (1995) and Robert Solow (1987), Literature Prize winners Kenzaburo Oe (1994) and V.S. Naipaul (2001), physicist Herbert Kroemer (2000) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Joseph Rotblat (1995).
