Reason of State, Propaganda and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes

by Thomas Hobbes and Noel Malcolm

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".

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199215936
• ISBN13: 9780199215935
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"