Dear colleagues,
The following book may be of interest to some of you, or to your
university librarian. Apologies for cross-posting.
Béla Tomka, A SOCIAL HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, London and
New York: Routledge, 2013, 552 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-415-62845-7 (Paperback); 978-0-415-62843-3 (Hardback)
About the book
'A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe' offers a systematic
overview of major aspects of social life in the last century and
beyond, including population, family and households, social
inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and
leisure, social cleavages in politics, and 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.
Across 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 to
Eastern, Central and Southern European countries as well.
For more information see the website of the publisher and the attached flyer:
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415628457/
Reviews
"Over the years I have seen many studies on the social history of
twentieth-century Europe, but this one clearly stands out. Béla
Tomka's is, to my knowledge, the first serious attempt to fully
integrate all the continent's regions, while strongly relying on
comparisons. This sophisticated and multifaceted synthesis is a magnum
opus which deserves a very wide readership."
- Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History,
The Netherlands
"Béla Tomka has produced a very convincing and impressive social
historical synthesis of Europe between World War I and the present.
Eastern Europe is not a mere appendix to a basically West European
story, but gets its fair share of attention and erudition. The book is
written in a highly reflective spirit with much sense for comparative
approaches. On the basis of an excellent knowledge of the research
literature in several languages, it offers a very readable and fully
reliable introduction into the major fields of present-day social
history. At the same time it relates to fundamental questions of
European modernity, conflicts and identity, in an original way."
- Jürgen Kocka, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Germany
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Prof. Dr. Béla Tomka
University of Szeged
Department of History
Egyetem u 2
Szeged
H-6722
Tel./fax: + 36 (62) 544-464
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www2.arts.u-szeged.hu/legegyt/
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