Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years WarCambridge University Press, 2007 - 252 pagine 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. |
Sommario
Historical and scientific explanations | 19 |
The modern orthodoxy | 44 |
A narrative theory of action | 66 |
Why did Sweden go to war in 1630? | 93 |
Historical and cultural preliminaries | 95 |
Fighting for a national interest | 110 |
Fighting for a national identity | 145 |
the end of the story? | 187 |
Notes | 194 |
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