00880nam a2200169Ia 4500 20250723104353.0 250723s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9780199575718 940.248 MAL 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. History ENGLISH 576933 576933