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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The Course of Empire: Destruction, by Thomas Cole, 1836.

Storm Warning

By Caleb Carr

Are there meaningful parallels between America today and late imperial Rome, and will they suffer a similar fate?

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Map

Fringe Benefits

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

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2003 | Kuwait

Blowing the Trumpet

What is rightful destruction?More

1944 | East Anglia

Addressing the Troops

General Patton makes a statement.More

1906 | Stanford

Proposing the Moral Equivalent of War

William James considers substitutes for martial experience.More

Charts & Graphs

Death Gratuity

U.S. military condolence reimbursements.

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American civil war general William Tecumseh Sherman.

Illuminated manuscript illustration of a bearded man wearing a mitre and holding a staff

Statue of French medieval poet and historian Jean Froissart.

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Statue depicting Roman orator and historian Tacitus.

Lewis Lapham at his desk

War is sweet to those who don’t know it.

—Erasmus, 1508

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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