00825nam a2200145Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200170007610000180009324500590011126000390017030000140020950004440022365000120066720250723104353.0250723s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9780199575718  a940.248bMAL  aMalcolm, Noel 0aReason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War  bOxford University Press, USAc2010  a227 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