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Identity, Interest and Action - A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War (Hardcover, New)
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Identity, Interest and Action - A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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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 his
alternative, non-rational theory of action in his account of the
Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years War, he shows it to have
been an attempt on behalf of the Swedish leaders to gain
recognition for themselves and their country. Further to this, he
demonstrates the importance of questions of identity to the study
of war and of narrative theories of action to the social sciences
in general.
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