[10] October 17 - Raw materials and total war
Section outline
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Optional background reading: Alison Frank Johnson, "Blood of the earth: The crisis of war," Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), 173-204. [This is not treating a contemporary intellectual debate as such, and will not directly inform our discussion, so you may read "efficiently." But it is an excellent account of the wartime economic context, and in general a book you should note.]Assigned reading:
Walther Rathenau, "The organization of raw materials supply" (1915) [German original]
V. I. Vernadskii, "War and the progress of science" (1915). [Russian original]