Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal - Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire (Hardcover)

The principal aims of Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire are to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the urban systems of the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Empire and to explain why these systems looked the way they did. While some chapters focus on settlements that were cities or towns from a juridical point of view, the implications of using a purely functional definition of towns are also explored. Key themes include continuities and discontinuities between pre-Roman and Roman settlement patterns, the geographical distribution of cities belonging to various size brackets, economic relationships between self-governing cities and their territories and the role of cities as nodes in road systems and maritime networks. In addition, it is argued that a considerable number of self-governing communities in Roman Spain and Portugal were poly-centric rather than based on a single urban centre. The volume will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism as well as those interested in the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman period.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism
Release date:	March 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Pieter Houten
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	460
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-90077-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	0-367-90077-7
Barcode:	9780367900779

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