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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1969 | My Lai

The “Pinkville” Incident

Exposing the My Lai massacre.More

1918 | Petrograd

Preserving the Revolution

Lenin puts his foot down. More

1905 | New York

War Prayer

Mark Twain describes the lunacy of war.More

Charts & Graphs

Coalitions of the Willing

Nations enlisted for the liberation of Baghdad, then and now.

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Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Black and white photograph of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

Colorized engraving of Voltaire wearing a wig.

A dead enemy always smells good.

—Aulus Vitellius, 69

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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