[3] September 23 - Timekeeping and military logistics
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
David Stevenson, "War by Timetable? The Railway Race before 1914," Past and Present 162 (1999): 163-194.Peter Galison, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps (2004), 84-107, 155-161.
Additional resources:
Stephen Kern, “Temporality of the July Crisis,” The Culture of Time and Space 1880–1918 (1983), 259–312. [303.4/83 KER]
Anthony Heywood, "Spark of Revolution? Railway Disorganisation, Freight Traffic and Tsarist Russia's War Effort, July 1914–March 1917," Europe-Asia Studies 65 (2013): 753-772.
Keir A. Lieber, War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (2005).
Daniel Pick, War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age (1993).