Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War.(Review)

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: Nordstrom, Byron J. | Copyright information

Erik Ringmar. Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War. Cambridge Cultural Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. Pp. 236.

"Despite all the works written on the intervention, and despite 350 years of intense historiographical debate, no historian has so far been able to give a satisfactory explanation of why Sweden went to war in 1630" (141). Alas, according to Swedish scholar Erik Ringmar, the work of...

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