{"product_id":"9780367708672-urbanisation-in-roman-spain-portugal","title":"Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCivitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire. \u003cp\u003eThe principal aims of the book \u003ci\u003eUrbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eThe principal aims of \u003ci\u003eUrbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism as well as those interested in the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41513833463905,"sku":"9780367708672","price":49.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_21277515.jpg?v=1708512147","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367708672-urbanisation-in-roman-spain-portugal","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}