The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural ChangeRoutledge, 31 gen 2002 - 240 pagine The Roads of Roman Italy offers a complete re-evaluation of both the evidence and the interpretation of Roman land transport. The book utilises archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for Roman communications, drawing on recent approaches to the human landscape developed by geographers. Among the topics considered are: * the relationship between the road and the human landscape * the administration and maintenance of the road system * the role of roads as imperial monuments * the economics of road construction and urban development. |
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Town foundation in Roman Italy 30030 | |
The politics of road building | |
Inland waterways | |
the scale of the transport economy | |
A mobile culture? | |
Viewing towns generating space | |
naming Italy | |
The extension of state power | |
Spacetime in Roman Italy | |
Bibliography | |
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