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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1945 | Potsdam

The Price Paid for Defeat

There are no alternatives.More

1962 | Washington, DC

Casus Belli

Disinforming Cubans.More

c. 1914 | Ypres

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Bids Farewell to His Colonel

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

Charts & Graphs

Arms Race

Developments in weapons technology.

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Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Albert Einstein in a suit and tie standing in front of a chalkboard

Lewis Lapham at his desk

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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