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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1944 | East Anglia

Addressing the Troops

General Patton makes a statement.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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Photograph of Soviet Russian writer and journalist Vasily Grossman.

Black and white photograph of a young John Ruskin wearing a suit.

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

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

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

Black and white photograph of English poet Wilfred Owen.

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

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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