Water and Roman Urbanism

Adam Rogers, Ph.D. (2009), University of Durham, has recently completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Leicester, and specialises in Roman archaeology. He has published Late Roman Towns in Britain: Rethinking Change and Decline (Cambridge, 2011) and numerous articles.

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsChapter 1IntroductionChapter 2Five Urban WaterscapesChapter 3Rivers, lakes and islands: towns, changing waterscapes and geographyChapter 4Waterfronts: the land/water interface and the construction of waterfront installationsChapter 5Wetlands: the materiality of land drainage and reclamation in townsChapter 6Conclusions: towns, water and peopleBibliographyIndex

"[This book] effectively challenges the overly positivist interpretive regimes in which Roman urbanism in Britain has been previously understood and demonstrates that human relationships to water, with particular emphasis on urban environments, are contingent and socially mediated beyond desires to rationalize and maximize." Eric E. Poehler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.04.18.