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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c. 412 | Hippo

Benevolent Curiosity

Saint Augustine’s classification of combat.More

1906 | Stanford

Proposing the Moral Equivalent of War

William James considers substitutes for martial experience.More

1865 | Washington

“With Malice Toward None”

Lincoln’s second inaugural address.More

Charts & Graphs

Between the Devil and the Deep-Blue Sea

A U.S. serviceman’s chances of death in battle.

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Seated man with slicked back hair speaking into a microphone

Statue of French medieval poet and historian Jean Froissart.

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

Black and white photograph of William Golding wearing an ascot.

English poet and novelist Siegfried Sassoon.

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

—Seneca, c. 50

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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