00880nam a2200169Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200170007610000180009324500590011126000390017030000140020950004440022365000120066794200120067999900190069120250723104353.0250723s9999 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 cENGLISH c576933d576933