Reason of State Propoganda and the Thirty Years' War

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.