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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| ISBN 13 | 9781138634695 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138634697 |
| Author | Jay Ingate |
| Book Format | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| Book Subtitle | Hybridity And Identity |
| Book Description | 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 it a familiar, modern, sense of what constitutes civilised urban living. However, this is a view that has often neglected to explain how such developments were connected to the important symbolic and ritual traditions of waterscapes in iron age britain. Water and urbanism in roman britain argues that the creation of roman water infrastructure forged a meaningful entanglement between the process of urbanisation and significant local landscape contexts. As a result, it suggests that archetypal roman urban water features were often more related to an active expression of local hybrid identities, rather than alignment to an incoming continental ideal. By questioning the familiarity of these aspects of the ancient urban form, we can move away from the unhelpful idea that roman precedent is a central tenet of the current unsustainable relationship between water and our modern cities. This monograph will be of interest to academics and students studying aspects of roman water management, urbanisation in roman britain, and theoretical approaches to landscape. It will also appeal to those working more generally on past human interactions with the natural world. |
| About the Author | 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. |
| Publication Date | 18 Apr 2019 |
| Number of Pages | 220 |
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