Malcolm, Noel

Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War - Oxford University Press, USA 2010 - 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, revealing the involvement of a great modern thinker in secret and dangerous machinations of international politics.

9780199575718


History

940.248 / MAL