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 inseventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state". | Reason of State Propaganda and the Thirty Years' War by Noel Malcolm, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters