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

Name: Identity, Interest and Action
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521563147
Price: 17100 KES
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ISBN: 9780521563147

by Erik Ringmar

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

ISBN-10 0521563143

ISBN-13 9780521563147

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 3rd, 1996

Print length 252 Pages

Weight 518 grams

Dimensions 23.60 x 15.90 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 European history Cultural studies Cultural studies European history

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A powerful critique of rational choice theory which offers a solution to an important historiographical puzzle. Erik Ringmar's original, non-rational theory of action demonstrates the fundamental role of identity in explaining a country's involvement in war.

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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