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