Reason of State, Propaganda and the Thirty Years' War An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes
, by Malcolm, NoelNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780199215935 | 0199215936
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/19/2007
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 inseventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state".