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

St. Augustine’s classification of combat. More

1953 | Washington

“Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron”

Dwight D. Eisenhower explains the exchange rate for war.More

c. 496 | Tolbiac

Clovis Converts to Christ

Jesus comes to the aid of the Franks.More

Charts & Graphs

Lock and Load

Rates of fire for weapons throughout the ages.

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French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

Photograph of American writer William Langewiesche.

Former President of the United States Richard Nixon.

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

English author Robert Southey.

War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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Roundtable

Fiction Is History

By Lapham’s Quarterly

A journey through Joseph Conrad’s life at sea. More

DÉjÀ Vu

Dance Stance Revolution

2022:

Brazilian blocos ignore ban on Carnival celebrations.

1576:

Italian plague patients ignore ban on dance parties.

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The World in Time

Olivier Zunz

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. More

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