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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View of Grbavica, a neighbourhood of Sarajevo, approximately 4 months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord that officially ended the war in Bosnia, 1996. Photograph by Lt. Stacey Wyzkowski.

Band of Brigands

By John Mueller

The criminality of modern warfare.

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Map

Fringe Benefits

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

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c. 1914 | Ypres

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Bids Farewell to His Colonel

Losing one’s virginity to the horrors of war.More

1588 | Tilbury

Taking Up Arms

Elizabeth of England vs. Philip of Spain.More

2002 | Washington, DC

Moral Imperative

George W. Bush’s to-do list. More

Charts & Graphs

Lock and Load

Rates of fire for weapons throughout the ages.

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Lewis Lapham at his desk

American psychologist and philosopher William James.

Former President of the United States Richard Nixon.

British novelist and historian Tom Holland.

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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