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

Autor: Noel Malcolm
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Popis: 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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