Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War : an Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes.
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 episod...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, UK,
2007.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780191527050 019152705X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state"--;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 Habsbu. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
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