Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano , by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435–1460. National Gallery, London.

Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano, by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435–1460. National Gallery, London.

States of War

Volume 1, Number 1 | winter 2008

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Preamble

The Gulf of Time

By Lewis H. Lapham

An introduction to Lapham’s Quarterly.

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A composite image of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Generals, c. 1914.

Imperial Hubris: A German Tale

By Fritz Stern

War, Wilhelm II, and the consequences of leadership.

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Map

Fringe Benefits

Inventions, countries, and styles that came out of war.

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1962 | Washington, DC

Casus Belli

Disinforming Cubans.More

1453 | Constantinople

Regime Change

The curtain falls on the Roman Empire.More

1944 | East Anglia

Addressing the Troops

General Patton makes a statement.More

Charts & Graphs

The Financial Cost of America’s Wars

From the Revolutionary War to the Iraq War.

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Photograph of Soviet Russian writer and journalist Vasily Grossman.

Seated man with slicked back hair speaking into a microphone

Photograph of American writer William Langewiesche.

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

—Leon Trotsky

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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