Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain : Hybridity and Identity /: Hybridity and Identity. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jay Ingate.
• Authors: Ingate, Jay
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 220 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 363.6/109362; Municipal water supply -- England -- History -- To 1500; Urbanization -- England -- History -- To 1500; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; HISTORY -- Ancient -- General; Municipal water supply; Urbanization; Great Britain -- History -- To 449; England; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351797849; 1351797840; 9781351797825; 1351797824; 9781351797832; 1351797832; 9781315206707; 1315206706
• Related ISBNs: 9781138634695; 1138634697
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.