Reason Of State, Propaganda, And The Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation By Thomas Hobbes

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Format:: Paperback
Pages:: 240
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Publication Date:: 21 January 2010
Category:: Books
ISBN:: 9780199575718

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Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state".