232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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The establishment of large-scale water infrastructure is a defining aspect of the process of urbanisation. In places like Britain, the Roman period represents the first introduction of features that can be recognised and paralleled to our modern water networks. Writers have regularly cast these innovations as markers of a uniform Roman identity spreading throughout the Empire, and bringing with... Read more
List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Water and Urbanism; Chapter Two: Discovering Hybridity in Classical Accounts of Municipal Water; Chapter Three: Water in Roman Britain; Chapter Four: The Value of Water and New Approaches to Urban Space; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Jay Ingate is currently a sessional lecturer at the Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Kent, UK in 2014. He has written articles on the interpretation of aqueducts in Roman Britain, the development of Roman London's waterscape, and Post-Human approaches to the Roman world.
