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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1095 | Clermont

Summoning the Faithful

Pope Urban II’s holy crusade.More

1945 | Japan

Fair Warning

To the Japanese people.More

1906 | Stanford

Proposing the Moral Equivalent of War

William James considers substitutes for martial experience.More

Charts & Graphs

American Wars & Interventions

Military conflicts since the birth the of United States.

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British novelist and historian Tom Holland.

American psychologist and philosopher William James.

Photograph of Soviet Russian writer and journalist Vasily Grossman.

British historian Edward Gibbon.

Lewis Lapham at his desk

black and white photo of Kurt Vonnegut sitting over coffee and a book

You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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