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Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain - Hybridity and Identity (Paperback)
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Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain - Hybridity and Identity (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism
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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 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.
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