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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The Course of Empire: Destruction, by Thomas Cole, 1836.

Storm Warning

By Caleb Carr

Are there meaningful parallels between America today and late imperial Rome, and will they suffer a similar fate?

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Map

Fringe Benefits

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

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1917 | Hindenburg Trench

In No Man’s Land

Siegfried Sassoon enters a zone of inhuman havoc.More

1861 | Boston

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Marching on.More

c. 412 | Hippo

Benevolent Curiosity

Saint Augustine’s classification of combat.More

Charts & Graphs

American Wars & Foreign Interventions

Military conflicts since the birth of the United States.

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Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

British novelist and historian Tom Holland.

Statue of French medieval poet and historian Jean Froissart.

Photograph of Soviet Russian writer and journalist Vasily Grossman.

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

I detest war. It spoils armies.

—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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