Alexis de Tocqueville : (Record no. 818)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20190802104318.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 190724b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-0-521-74007-4 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | SAUT Mbeya Library |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 22nd ed. |
| Classification number | 300.92 ELS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1488 |
| Personal name | ELSTER, Jon |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Alexis de Tocqueville : |
| Remainder of title | the first social scientist / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Elster Jon |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 202p. : |
| Dimensions | 23cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes bibliography and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanation of social behavior, Jon Elster argues that Tocqueville's main claim to our attention today rests on the large number of exportable causal mechanisms to be found in his work, many of which are still worthy of further exploration. Elster proposes a novel reading of Democracy in America in which the key explanatory variable is the rapid economic and political turnover rather than equality of wealth at any given point in time. He also offers a reading of The Ancient regime and the Revolution as grounded in the psychological relations among the peasantry, the bourgeoisie, and the nobility. Consistently going beyond exegetical commentary, Elster argues that Tocqueville is eminently worth reading today for his substantive and methodological insights. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1862 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859. Social scientists -- France -- Biography. Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | CUoM Library | CUoM Library | General Stacks | 07/24/2019 | 300.92 ELS | 00004447 | 07/24/2019 | 07/24/2019 | Books |