Why Study History?

by Marcus Collins, Peter N. Stearns

Overview

Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book tries to both enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913019051
Publisher:	London Publishing Partnership
Publication date:	05/27/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Marcus Collins is Senior Lecturer in Cultural History at Loughborough University and an elected member of the Council of the Royal Historical Society. A specialist on popular culture and social change in Britain since 1945, he is the author of "The Beatles and Sixties Britain" (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and "Modern Love: An Intimate History of Men and Women in Twentieth-Century Britain" (Atlantic Books, 2003), and the editor of "The Permissive Society and Its Enemies: Sixties British Culture" (Rivers Oram Press, 2007).
Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University. He teaches undergraduate courses on world history and on US and comparative social and cultural history, including the history of emotion. He also regularly collaborates on undergraduate research. He has authored or edited more than 140 books and had great fun working on his most recent: "Time in World History" (Routledge, 2019). His new edited collection, "Death in Modern World History", will be published in autumn 2020.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Chapter 1 Getting started: making the most of history 1

Part I Skills and Jobs: The Results of Historical Study

Chapter 2 Meeting needs: the reasons to study history 15

Chapter 3 Careers for history graduates 41

Part II How History is Structured

Chapter 4 History in time and place: the common units of historical study 63

Chapter 5 Ihe history advantage: the dynamic range of historical study 75

Part III Studying History at College and University

Chapter 6 Evaluating history programmes 111

Chapter 7 Learning history as an undergraduate 133

Part IV History as a Public Good

Chapter 8 In public service: why society needs history and historians 161

Conclusion 175

Appendix How students experience UK history degrees 181

Endnotes 189