Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War

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

Noel Malcolm2007
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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