An edition of Identity, Interest and Action (1996)
Identity, interest, and action
a cultural explanation of Sweden's intervention in the Thirty Years War
By Erik Ringmar
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Publish Date
1996
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
242
Description:
This book offers an original combination of culture 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 the latter are, in fact, more fundamental.
subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Nationalism, History, Sweden, history
Places: Sweden