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

Ringmar, Erik

 
9780521563147: Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War
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ISBN 10 : 0521563143 ISBN 13 : 9780521563147
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"Erik Ringmar has done a neat job of comparing rational-choice models of decision making with cultural ones in Identity, Interest and Action....this is a powerful little study, smoothly written and tightly argued that sheds light on many different areas of sociology." James M. Jasper, Contemporary Sociology

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521563143
ISBN 13 
9780521563147
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
252
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521026031: Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521026032 ISBN 13 :  9780521026031
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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