(P/B) REASON OF STATE, PROPAGANDA, AND THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR

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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, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state". (From the publisher)

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Preface
A Note on Dates and Transcriptions
1: Hobbes's Early Career
2: The Translation: Authorship, Date, and Style
3: The 'Secretissima instructio' Texts
4: The Distribution of the Altera secretissima instructio in England
5: Palatine Politics: Cavendish, Mansfield, and Hobbes
6: 'Reason of State' and Hobbes
Hobbes's translation of Altera secretissima instructio
Altera secretissima instructio
List of Manuscripts
Bibliography