Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire

<p>This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.</p><p>With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction to Roman cities not through the lens of architecture and urbanism but from a social legal cultural spatial and functional perspective. It focuses on the Roman <i>civitas </i>– the city and its territory – as the spatial model <i>par excellence </i>of Roman colonialism and expansion. Exploring primarily the cities and territories of the Western Empire such as the Iberian Peninsula Gaul and Britain González-Villaescusa revives from their ruins those central places that facilitated the circulation of people goods and information forming the large urban network of a unified imperial territory.</p><p><em>Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire: 4th Century </em><i>BC </i><em>to the 3rd Century AD </em>is suitable for school and university students as well as the general reader interested in the subject of Roman cities in the Western Empire.</p>