Download Full eBooks in PDF
Roman Roads Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Roman Roads book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Romolo Augusto Staccioli
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Roads
ISBN : 0892367326
Table of contents
Author : M.C. Bishop
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473837478
There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. The author starts with the pre-Roman origins of the network (many Roman roads being built over prehistoric routes) before describing how the Roman army built, developed, maintained and used it. Then, uniquely, he moves on to the post-Roman history of the roads. He shows how they were crucial to medieval military history (try to find a medieval battle that is not near one) and the governance of the realm, fixing the itinerary of the royal progresses. Their legacy is still clear in the building of 18th century military roads and even in the development of the modern road network. Why have some parts of the network remained in use throughout?The text is supported with clear maps and photographs. Most books on Roman roads are concerned with cataloguing or tracing them, or just dealing with aspects like surveying. This one makes them part of military landscape archaeology.
Author : Callihan Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989702863
Author : Ray Laurence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136823879
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.
Author : Raymond Chevallier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520348882
Author : Anne Kolb
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110636314
This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical and archaeological perspective. The focus is on the diverse local histories and the varying degrees of significance of individual roads and regional networks, which are treated here for the most important regions of the empire and beyond. The assembled contributions will be of interest to historians, archaeologists and epigraphers, since they tackle matters as diverse as the technical modalities of road-building, the choice of route, but also the functionality and the motives behind the creation of roads. Roman roads are further intimately related to various important aspects of Roman history, politics and culture. After all, such logistical arteries form the basis of all communication and exchange processes, enabling not only military conquest and security but also facilitating the creation of an organized state as well as trade, food supply and cultural exchange. The study of Roman roads must always be based on a combination of written and archaeological sources in order to take into account both their concrete geographical location and their respective spatial, cultural, and historical context.
Author : Paul Baxa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802099952
In the 1930s, the Italian Fascist regime profoundly changed the landscape of Rome's historic centre, demolishing buildings and displacing thousands of Romans in order to display the ruins of the pre-Christian Roman Empire. This transformation is commonly interpreted as a failed attempt to harmonize urban planning with Fascism's ideological exaltation of the Roman Empire. Roads and Ruins argues that the chaotic Fascist cityscape, filled with traffic and crumbling ruins, was in fact a reflection of the landscape of the First World War. In the radical interwar transformation of Roman space, Paul Baxa finds the embodiment of the Fascist exaltation of speed and destruction, with both roads and ruins defining the cultural impulses at the heart of the movement. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, Roads and Ruins is a richly textured study that offers an original perspective on a well known story.
Author : M.C. Bishop
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848846159
There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. ??The author starts with the pre-Roman origins of the network (many Roman roads being built over prehistoric routes) before describing how the Roman army built, developed, maintained and used it. Then, uniquely, he moves on to the post-Roman history of the roads. He shows how they were crucial to medieval military history (try to find a medieval battle that is not near one) and the governance of the realm, fixing the itinerary of the royal progresses. Their legacy is still clear in the building of 18th century military roads and even in the development of the modern road network. Why have some parts of the network remained in use throughout??The text is supported with clear maps and photographs. ??Most books on Roman roads are concerned with cataloguing or tracing them, or just dealing with aspects like surveying. This one makes them part of military landscape archaeology.
Author : John Poulter
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445612096
The Roman Empire depended on its roads and walls for trade and security, but before these vast structures were built, their courses would need to have been chosen and their lines set out across the countryside. In the absence of any significant Roman literature on the subject, John Poulter has devised a way of detecting the directions in which Roman surveyors may have been working when setting out their roads and walls in northern Britain.
Author : R. Martin Pope
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532635038
Author : Henry Maclauchlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000620677
Author : Henry Mac Lauchlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000032407
Author : Victor W. von Hagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Ivan Donald Margary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015030657772
Author : Homer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781603840231
This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction, a shortened version of her essay for the unabridged edition, is ideal for readers new to this remarkable tale of the homecoming of Odysseus.