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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1861 | Virginia

Recording an Inkling of Civil War

Walt Whitman sees the blackness of the human heart.More

2003 | Kuwait

Blowing the Trumpet

What is rightful destruction?More

1918 | Petrograd

Preserving the Revolution

Lenin puts his foot down. More

Charts & Graphs

The World’s Largest Armies

Troop sizes from around the world.

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Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

American novelist Tim O’Brien.

Black and white photograph of English poet Wilfred Owen.

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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