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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Leonidas at Thermopylae, by Jacques-Louis David, 1814.

The Persian Way of War

By Tom Holland

Unlike the Greeks, Xerxes viewed war as more than a simple matter of strategy. Rather, it was a means of flaunting global mastery.

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Map

Fringe Benefits

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

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c. 1918 | Flanders

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Wilfred Owen exposes the old lie.More

1905 | New York

War Prayer

Mark Twain describes the lunacy of war.More

1906 | Stanford

Proposing the Moral Equivalent of War

William James considers substitutes for martial experience.More

Charts & Graphs

Walking Wounded

Eight wounds sustained by Alexander the Great.

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Sepia image of a woman with head veiled

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

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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