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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390 | Rome

Imperial Band Music

Vegetius conducts an army.More

1944 | East Anglia

Addressing the Troops

General Patton makes a statement.More

1676 | New England

Casualty Report

An account of the English losses in the colonies.More

Charts & Graphs

Walking Wounded

Eight wounds sustained by Alexander the Great.

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Photograph of American writer William Langewiesche.

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

American psychologist and philosopher William James.

Black and white photograph of English poet Wilfred Owen.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1773

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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