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Degree in History in 1995, while a year later he received his Doctor of Philosophy title in Economic and Social History. In 2010 the Hungarian Academy of Sciences awarded him the Higher Doctorate (Doctor of Science) title.
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A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe
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A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education, religion and culture. It also addresses major debates and diverging interpretations of historical and social research regarding the history of European societies in the past one hundred years. Organized in ten thematic chapters, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach, making use of the methods and results of not only history, but also sociology, demography, economics and political science. Béla Tomka presents both the diversity and the commonalities of European societies looking not just to Western European countries, but Eastern, Central and Southern European countries as well. A perfect introduction for all students of European history.
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Bela Tomka
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His main research area is 20th century social and economic history with a special emphasis on international comparisons. He earned a master’s degree in History and History of Eastern Europe at the University of Szeged, followed by postgraduate studies in economic and social history at the Corvinus University Budapest, in the United States (Minneapolis) and in Germany (Münster). He gained the doctor university.
In his dissertation, later published as a book, he analyzed the relationship between banks and industry in Hungary at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, based on a wide range of archival sources.
At the same time his aim was to reevaluate the arguments developed by R. Hilferding and A. Gerschenkron that have been influencing international economic history for many years. This dissertation aimed at determining the place of Hungary in the system of 20th-century European social and economic convergences and divergences with the systematic empirical analysis of several social and economic fields.
Within the social and economic history of 20th century Hungary and Europe, his research has centred on changes of population and family patterns and the welfare state. His latest works has focused on the comparative history of economic growth, consumption and the quality of life in East Central Europe.
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Tomka defended his habilitation thesis (‘venia legendi’) in 2004.
Membership
Since 1992 he is co-editor of Aetas, a Quarterly Journal of History and Related Disciplines, while being a member of other editorial boards of academic periodicals as well (Esély, a Journal of Social Policy. The Hungarian Historical Review). He is a board member of the István Hajnal Society of Social History.
In 2010 he was elected as board member of the International Social History Association (ISHA, Amsterdam) and since 2011 he has been editor of the newsletter of this association.
He is also an external founding member of the Social and Economic History Doctor of Philosophy program at Eötvös University (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest).
