Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes

by NoelMalcolm (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $119.70

  Explores an episode in seventeenth-century history, revealing the involvement of a great modern thinker in secret and dangerous machinations of international politics.

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $57.83

  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.