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SUMMARY:Lecture: Patrick Hunt (Stanford University) on "Hannibal's Secret Weapon" in HSSB Room 6020
DESCRIPTION:Hannibal’s success as a military commander in the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE) – surprising and severely defeating Rome after crossing the Alps at the Trebbia\, Trasimene and Cannae battles and trickery against Fabius Maximus and others – is usually not focused on his brilliant weaponization of nature and his important use of Iberian silver to secure excellent military intelligence and pay his allied mercenaries as well as his schooling of Rome to reinvent its military. When Scipio – Hannibal’s best pupil – took New Carthage (Cartago Nova or Cartagena) in 209 BCE\, he effectively cut off Hannibal’s access to further Iberian silver and Hannibal’s successes dried up\, which is no coincidence. Scipio learned well from Hannibal’s craftiness\, as documented in Polybius and Frontinus’ Strategemata\, by turning the tables on Hannibal at Zama in 202 BCE. As a result of Hannibal’s genius\, every strategist since Hannibal\, including Machiavelli and military commanders up to the present\, emulates Hannibal’s program for adding nature to his arsenal and his use of military intelligence and topography\, which is why Hannibal’s tactics are still taught as relevant spycraft. The irony that Hannibal never aimed to destroy Carthage but only to preserve Carthage is all the more tragic in that Rome sought to and succeeded in destroying Carthage’s empire and impose their own empire and remake the Mediterranean as “Mare Nostrum.” \nPatrick Hunt is with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA\, the School of Cultural Diplomacy in London\, the Fromm Institute in San Francisco\, and the Institute for EthnoMedicine.  He holds his Ph.D. from the Institute of Archaeology\, University of London\, and has also studied at the University of California at Berkeley\, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.  His research interests are Alpine archaeology\, archaeological science\, archaeometry\, geoarchaeology\, forensic archaeology\, Roman archaeology\, Celtic archaeology\, and Hannibal studies.  His main publications include Alpine Archaeology (2007)\, and Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History (2007)\, as well as numerous articles and encyclopedia entries\, and his most recent book is Hannibal. Prof. Hunt is one of the AIA’s 2022/2023 Norton Lecturers. \nFor additional information or for assistance in accommodating a disability\, please contact Prof. John Lee in the UC Santa Barbara History Department.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lecture-patrick-hunt-stanford-university-on-hannibals-secret-weapon/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:IHC RFG Talk | Lee Vinsel | US Policymaking and the Promises of Technology in the 1990S’ “New Economy”
DESCRIPTION:On April 5th\, 2000\, President William Clinton stepped to the microphone at the White House Conference on the New Economy and told those gathered that the United States was experiencing “an economic transformation as profound as that that led us into the industrial revolution.” The 1990s was a heady moment for chatter about technological change\, especially around personal computers and the Internet. Microsoft CEO Bill Gates predicted Business @ the Speed of Thought\, as one of his book titles put it\, and Wired writer Kevin Kelly argued that the Internet would lead to the dematerialization of the economy. This “irrational exuberance” would eventually end in the dot com bust\, but not before members of the Clinton administration used projections around “the New Economy” to justify a number of decisions that would have far-reaching ramifications\, including policies around telecommunications\, labor and trade\, education and training\, student loans\, and economic\, racial\, and gender inequality. \nIn this talk\, Lee Vinsel will build on recent work on the history of the Clinton White House and political economy\, including Margaret O’Mara’s The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America and Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein’s forthcoming\, A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism. Vinsel will ask what can be gained for this literature by focusing on technology\, both the actual material change taking place in the 1990s and\, perhaps most importantly\, the ideas and fantasies surrounding the concept “technology\,” which greatly outpaced reality. \nLee Vinsel is Associate Professor of Science\, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Machines\, People\, and Politics Research Focus Group
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ihc-rfg-talk-lee-vinsel-us-policymaking-and-the-promises-of-technology-in-the-1990s-new-economy/
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