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Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War : an Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes.
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 episod...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, UK,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; 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; Index.