{"product_id":"identity-interest-and-action-a-cultural-explanation-of-swedens-intervention-in-the-thirty-years-war-hardback-9780521563147","title":"Identity, Interest and Action; A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War (Hardback) 9780521563147","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIdentity, Interest and Action\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCritique of rational choice theory and original, cultural analysis of key historical problem.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErik Ringmar (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521563147, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 October 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.518 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: the beginning of the story\u003cbr\u003e Part I. A Narrative Theory of Action: 1. Historical and scientific explanations\u003cbr\u003e 2. The modern orthodoxy\u003cbr\u003e 3. A narrative theory of action\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Why Did Sweden Go to War in 1630?: 4. Historical and cultural preliminaries\u003cbr\u003e 5. Fighting for a national interest\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fighting for a national identity\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: the end of the story?\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Cultural studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Cultural studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Cultural%20studies%20%5BJFC%5D%22\"\u003eJFC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065993580824,"sku":"9780521563147","price":80.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521563147i.jpg?v=1691408618","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/identity-interest-and-action-a-cultural-explanation-of-swedens-intervention-in-the-thirty-years-war-hardback-9780521563147","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}