Why Study History?. Este artículo no está disponible.Why Study History?

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. This volume is for students and potential students of history - it answers the question why study history - and also how to study it, where to study it, what it can do for you in your future worklife, for your personal development, and for the public good. This short guide busts a lot of myths and offers practical advice based on an unparalleled understanding of how history is actually taught on both sides of the Atlantic, in schools and universities.

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.