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Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain 1st Edition by Jay Ingate, ISBN-13: 978-1032178271

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Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain 1st Edition by Jay Ingate, ISBN-13: 978-1032178271

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  • Publisher: ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (September 30, 2021)
  • Language: ‎ English
  • 232 pages
  • ISBN-10: ‎ 1032178272
  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1032178271

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.

Table of Contents:

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1 Water and urbanism
Introduction
Water and twentieth-century approaches to Roman urbanism
Justifying water networks
Modern water supply and the urban setting
The strange water of prehistoric temperate Europe
Water and hybrid urban identity
2 Hybridity in classical accounts of urban water
Meaning-laden Roman water
An entangled source
Building rivers: hybrid water flow
The hybrid baths
Hybrid urban water networks
3 Water in Roman Britain
Establishing a context for water
Lincoln (Lindum Colonia)
St Albans (Verulamium)
London (Londinium)
Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum)
Dorchester (Durnovaria)
Wroxeter (Viroconium)
Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum)
Colchester (Camulodunum/Colonia Claudia Victricensis)
Chichester (Noviomagus)
Winchester (Venta Belgarum)
Canterbury (Durovernum)
Cirencester (Corinium)
York (Eboracum)
Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum)
Caerwent (Venta Silurum)
Other towns
Manipulating urban identities: multidimensional approaches to water supply
4 The value of water and new approaches to urban space
Water and hybridity in the Mediterranean
Hybrid motivations and functions for water supply in Britain
Stranger things: defamiliarising Roman urbanism in Britain
Changing environmental conditions and urban waterscapes
Water and the identity of our urban future
Conclusions
References
Index

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.

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