Identity, interest, and action
Subtitle: a cultural explanation of Sweden's intervention in the Thirty Years War
By: Erik Ringmar.
Series: Cambridge cultural social studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648.; Nationalism -- Sweden.; Sweden -- History -- Gustavus II Adolphus, 1611-1632.
Other titles: Cultural explanation of Sweden's intervention in the Thirty Years War
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.