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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View of Grbavica, a neighbourhood of Sarajevo, approximately 4 months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord that officially ended the war in Bosnia, 1996. Photograph by Lt. Stacey Wyzkowski.

Band of Brigands

By John Mueller

The criminality of modern warfare.

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Map

Fringe Benefits

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

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c. 1914 | Ypres

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Bids Farewell to His Colonel

Losing one’s virginity to the horrors of war.More

1805 | Cape Trafalgar

England Expects, Nelson Confides

How to word a rallying cry.More

1917 | Washington, DC

A World Made Safe

Woodrow Wilson champions democracy. More

Charts & Graphs

Rations

Available and rationed items during World War II.

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Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

Statue depicting Roman orator and historian Tacitus.

Colorized engraving of Voltaire wearing a wig.

English poet and novelist Siegfried Sassoon.

Joseph Heller

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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