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Reason of state, propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War /

"Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes: 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 1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Malcolm, Noel
Otros Autores: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Publicado: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • A note on dates and transcriptions
  • Hobbe's early career
  • The translation : authorship, date, and style
  • The 'Secretissima instructio' texts
  • The distribution of the Alterio secretissima instructio in England
  • Palatine politics : Cavendish, Mansfield, and Hobbes
  • 'Reason of state' and Hobbes
  • Hobbes's translation of Altera secretissima instructio
  • Altera secretissima instructio
  • List of manuscripts.