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Author Rogers, Adam, 1981-

Title Water and Roman urbanism : towns, waterscapes, land transformation and experience in Roman Britain / by Adam Rogers
Published Leiden : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Mnemosyne supplements : history and archaeology of classical antiquity ; v. 355
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; v. 355.
Contents Five Urban Waterscapes -- Rivers, Lakes and Islands : Towns, Changing Waterscapes and Geography -- Waterfronts : The Land/Water Interface and the Construction of Waterfront Installations -- Wetlands : The Materiality of Land Drainage and Reclamation in Towns -- Conclusions: Towns, Water and People
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cities and towns, Ancient -- Great Britain
City and town life -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
City planning -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Water use -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Water -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Water and architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
Landscape changes -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
Cities and towns, Ancient
City and town life
City planning
Civilization -- Roman influences
Classical antiquities
Geography
Landscape changes
Water and architecture
Water -- Social aspects
Water use
Waterhuishouding.
Stedelijke gebieden.
Romeinse oudheid.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization -- Roman influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056630
Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056607
Great Britain -- Geography
Subject Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanniƫ en Noord-Ierland.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013001251
ISBN 9004249753
9789004249752