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Why Study History?

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  • Language:English(Translation Services Available)
  • Publication date:May,2020
  • Pages:224
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"An excellent guide for students of history – why study history, 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."
——Peter Mandler, Professor in Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge

"This brief volume is packed with wisdom and practical advice. Students of history – young and old – will find much of value in its pages."
——Sam Wineburg, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of History & American Studies at Stanford University

… an invaluable guide to “everything you wanted to know about studying history, but were perhaps afraid to ask”. This useful handbook surefootedly leads the prospective student and aspiring historian through every conceivable step in the process from the first glint of interest in a student’s eye, to the selection of a course of study, to life as a professional academic. Yet for all its sober and sensible practicality, the authors successfully convey the joy of history.
——Mary Lindemann, Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Miami

At last, we have a volume that directly challenges the doubts and apprehensions many students have about studying history. Much needed and highly recommended.
——Robert B. Townsend, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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★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.

★A series books written by renowned experts and scholars, Professor of History at George Mason University Peter N. Stearns, President of the British Geographical Society Alan Parkinson, Lecturer in The Institute of Mathematics at Oxford University and PhD in Mathematics at Cambridge University Vicki Neil and so on.

★Recommended by Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge Peter Mandalay, distinguished British social geographer and Special Honorary Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford Danny Dorling and so on.


★‘Why Study Economics’ and more follow-up works are planned.

4 titles: ‘Why Study Mathematics?’ ‘Why Study History’, ‘Why Study Geography?’, ‘Why Study Languages?’.

Description

• Will a history degree get me a good job?
• What could I earn?
• What skills will studying history give me?
• What’s it like to study history at university?
• What should I look for in choosing a course?
• How can I optimize my time at university?

Considering studying history at university? Want to know what it s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know.

Author

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 founded and edited the top-ranked journal in the field of social history: Journal of Social History.
He has authored or edited more than 140 books and had great fun working on his most recent: Time in World History (Routledge, 2019), and other renowned works like The Encyclopedia of World History (Houghton Mifflin Co.), Globalization in World History (Routledge), Peace in World History(Taylor & Francis) and so on

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).

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