Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain Hybridity and Identity / Jay Ingate.
| Author/creator | Ingate, Jay |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Landon : New York, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in Roman space and urbanism |
| Contents | Chapter One: Water and Urbanism -- Introduction -- Water and 20th century Approaches to Roman Urbanism -- Justifying Water Networks -- The Strange Water of Prehistoric Temperate Europe -- Water and Hybrid Urban Identity -- Chapter Two: Discovering Hybridity in Classical Accounts of Municipal Water -- Introduction: Meaning-laden Roman Water -- An Entangled Source -- Wells and Springs -- Sourcing an Aqueduct -- Building Rivers: Hybrid Waterflow -- The Hybrid Baths -- Healing Water -- Sacred Water -- Communal and Political Water -- Hybrid Urban Water Networks -- Chapter Three: Water in Roman Britain -- Introduction: Establishing a Context for Water -- Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) -- St Albans (Verulamium) -- London (Londinium) -- Silchester (Calleva Artebatum) -- Dorchester (Durnovaria) -- Wroxeter (Viroconium) -- Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum) --Colchester (Camulodunum/Colonia Claudia Victricensis) -- Chichester (Noviomagus) -- Winchester (Venta Belgarum) -- Canterbury (Durovernum) -- York (Eboracum) -- Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) -- Caerwent (Venta Silurum) -- Other Towns -- Manipulating Urban Identities: Multi-Dimensional Approaches to Water Supply -- Chapter Four: The Value of Water and New Approaches to Urban Space -- Introduction -- Water and Hybridity in the Mediterranean -- Hybrid Motivations and Functions for Water Supply in Britain -- Incoming Motivations -- Ancestral Landscapes -- Finding Water and Creating Communities -- Stranger Things: Defamiliarising Roman Urbanism in Britain -- Changing Environmental Conditions and Urban Waterscapes -- Water and the Identity of Our Urban Future . |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018057715 |
| ISBN | 9781138634695 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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