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 "e;reason of state"e;.
| ISBN: | 9780191527050 |
| Publication date: | 22nd February 2007 |
| Author: | Malcolm, Noel |
| Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |