Water and Roman Urbanism

Informationen zum Autor Adam Rogers , Ph.D. (2009), University of Durham, has recently completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Leicester, and specialises in Roman archaeology. He has published Late Roman Towns in Britain: Rethinking Change and Decline (Cambridge, 2011) and numerous articles. Klappentext Water and Roman Urbanism provides an innovative archaeological perspective on the Roman urban experience in Britain through its focus on the cultural implications of the crucial relationship between water and settlement and the important development of this relationship over time. List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Five Urban Waterscapes; Chapter 3 Rivers, lakes and islands: towns, changing waterscapes and geography; Chapter 4 Waterfronts: the land/water interface and the construction of waterfront installations; Chapter 5 Wetlands: the materiality of land drainage and reclamation in towns; Chapter 6 Conclusions: towns, water and people; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Rogers, Adam Rogers
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2013
• EAN: 9789004247871
• ISBN: 978-90-0-424787-1
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 244 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne Supplements: History; Mnemosyne, Supplements; Mnemosyne Supplements: History
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous