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

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ISBN-10: 0199215936

ISBN-13: 9780199215935

Edition: 2007

Authors: Noel. Malcolm, Thomas Hobbes

List price: $67.00
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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.
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Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/19/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Noel Malcolm is a British columnist, writer and editor who was born in 1956. He was educated at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1981 to 1988. Malcolm left teaching to become the Foreign Editor of the Spectator and a political columnist for London's Daily Telegraph. Malcolm has written Bosnia: A Short Story, which puts the Bosnia-Hercegovina conflict into historical context and Kosovo: A Short Story, which outlines its history from medieval Serb state into modern times.

Preface
A Note on Dates and Transcriptions
Hobbes's Early Career
The Translation: Authorship, Date, and Style
The 'Secretissima instructio' Texts
The Distribution of the iAltera secretissima instructio/i in England
Palatine Politics: Cavendish, Mansfield, and Hobbes
'Reason of State' and Hobbes
Hobbes's translation of iAltera secretissima instructio/iiAltera secretissima instructio/i
List of Manuscripts
Bibliography