Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain Hybridity and Identity / Jay Ingate.

Author/creator Ingate, Jay
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLandon : New York, : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesStudies 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018057715
ISBN9781138634695 (hardback : alk. paper)

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