00830nam a2200145Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200170007610000230009324500590011626000390017530000140021450004440022865000120067220250719144646.0250719s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9780199575718  a940.248bMAL  aSchindler, Norbert 0aReason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War  bOxford University Press, USAc2010  a336 pages  aAcclaimed 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, revealing the involvement of a great modern thinker in secret and dangerous machinations of international politics.  aHistory