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9780415166164

The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415166164

  • ISBN10:

    0415166160

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-11-11
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Here is a well-documented and lavishly illustrated analysis of the significance of land transport for Roman communications. Among the topics covered are: the relationship between the road and human landscape, the administration and maintenance of the road system, the role of roads as imperial monuments, and the economics of road construction and urban development.

Table of Contents

List of figures
vii
List of tables
x
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction
1(10)
Mastering space: road building 312--44 BC
11(16)
Town foundation in Roman Italy 300--30 BC
27(12)
The politics of road building
39(19)
Technological change
58(20)
Time and distance
78(17)
Transport economics
95(14)
Inland waterways
109(14)
Mules and muleteers: the scale of the transport economy
123(13)
A mobile culture?
136(12)
Viewing towns -- generating space
148(14)
Tota Italia: naming Italy
162(15)
The extension of state power
177(10)
Space-time in Roman Italy
187(13)
Bibliography 200(15)
Index 215

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