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

Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 227 pages. 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". Clean, bright copy.