Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War
An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes
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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".
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- ISBN13 9780191527050
- Released 2007
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Format Elektronisk medie
- Language English