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Identity, interest, and action : a cultural explanation of Sweden's intervention in the Thirty Years War
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ISBN: 0521563143 0521026032 0511557701 Year: 1996 Volume: *4 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

Why Europe was first : social change and economic success in Europe and East Asia, 1500 - 2050.
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ISBN: 9781843312413 1843312417 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Anthem

Surviving capitalism : how we learned to live with the market and remained almost human
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ISBN: 1843311763 1843311755 9786613377715 1843317613 1283377713 9781843317616 9780857287236 0857287230 9781843311751 9781843311768 Year: 2005 Publisher: London : Anthem Press,

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A fresh, funny and imaginative discourse on the nature of capitalism and how society has learned to cope with it.

The mechanics of modernity in Europe and East Asia : the institutional origins of social change and stagnation
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ISBN: 0415342546 9780415342544 1280241322 9786610241323 0203338588 0415547709 9781134292646 1134292643 9780203338582 9781134292592 9781134292639 9780415547703 1134292635 Year: 2005 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be possible, change must be institutionalized. Taking a global view, Ringmar investigates the implications of his conclusion on issues facing the developing world today.


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History of international relations : a non-European perspective
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ISBN: 9781783740246 9781783740253 1783740248 9781783740260 1783740264 9781783747788 1783747781 1783740256 9781783740239 9781783740222 1783740221 9781783740222 178374023X 9781783740239 Year: 2019 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Indic and Sinic societies in South East Asia, and the Europeans through their travels and colonial expansion. The concluding section concerns contemporary issues: the processes of decolonization, neo-colonialism and globalization - and their consequences on contemporary society. History of International Relations provides a unique textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of international relations, and anybody interested in international relations theory, history, and contemporary politics. As with all Open Book publications, this en tire book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com.


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Moving bodies : embodied minds and the world that we made
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ISBN: 1009245651 1009245627 100924566X 1009245635 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Increasingly we have come to live in our heads, leaving our bodies behind. The consequences have been far-reaching, of which cognitive theory has warned us, advocating a 'return to the body.' This book employs several case studies-kings performing in ballets, sea captains dancing with natives, nationalists engaged in gymnastics exercises-to demonstrate what has been lost and what could be gained by a more embodied approach to living, to history. These curious movements were ways to be, to think, to know, to imagine, and to will. They highlight the limits of historical explanations focusing on cultural factors and question currently fashionable 'cultural' and 'post-modern' perspectives. Bodies, cognitive theory tells us, are the same regardless of historical context, and they engage in the same intentional activities. Returning to our bodies and their movements enables us not only to explain historical actions anew, but also to understand ourselves better.


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Moving bodies : embodied minds and the world that we made
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ISBN: 9781009245630 9781009245661 9781009245647 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia
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ISBN: 1134292597 Year: 2005 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Liberal barbarism: the European destruction of the palace of the emperor of China
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ISBN: 9781137031600 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Palgrave Macmillan

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Identity, interest and action: a cultural explanation of Sweden's intervention in the Thirty Years War
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