Description
| Product ID: | 9780199575718 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War |
| Subtitle: | An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes |
| Authors: | Author: Noel Malcolm |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of ideas, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, History of ideas |
| Description: | 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. 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". |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-01-21 |
