Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War

(Part of the Cambridge Cultural Social Studies Series)

by Erik Ringmar

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This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical study of identity and political action. It is at once a powerful critique of rational choice theories of action and a solution to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden went to war in 1630. Erik Ringmar argues that people act not only for reasons of interest, but also for reasons of identity, and that the latter are, in fact, more fundamental. Deploying...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521026032

ISBN13:9780521026031

Release Date:January 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

17th Century Education & Reference Europe History Military Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Scandinavia Schools & Teaching Social Sciences

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