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Author : M. C. Bishop
Publisher : The Armatura Press
ISBN 13 : 0957026145
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Hadrian's Wall written by M. C. Bishop and published by The Armatura Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. C. Bishop
Publisher : The Armatura Press
ISBN 13 : 1910238007
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book An Archaeological Guide to Walking Hadrian's Wall from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway (East to West) written by M. C. Bishop and published by The Armatura Press. This book was released on 2014-01-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an informative (yet informal) description of the route of Hadrian's Wall and all the remains that can still be seen. For most of the route from east to west, it follows the Hadrian's Wall National Trail Footpath, but with an important difference: where the path veers off the line of the Wall, this account stays with it and allows you to examine the remains most other walkers do not see (and most other guidebooks do not describe). Profusely illustrated with more than 100 photographs and plans, it is the perfect archaeological companion to your walk along Hadrian's Wall, regardless of whether you take it with you on your ebook reader or smartphone, or prefer to sit in the comfort of your favourite armchair and let others experience the rain and blisters whilst you enjoy the text and pictures. Written by an archaeologist who has walked, driven, cycled, flown, illustrated, photographed, and even excavated on Hadrian's Wall, this is the second of a new series of accessible guides to 'that famous wall'.
Author : M. C. Bishop
Publisher : The Armatura Press
ISBN 13 : 0957026161
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book An Archaeological Guide to Walking Hadrian’s Wall from Bowness-on-Solway to Wallsend (West to East) written by M. C. Bishop and published by The Armatura Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an informative (yet informal) description of the route of Hadrian's Wall and all the remains that can still be seen. For most of the route from west to east, it follows the Hadrian's Wall National Trail Footpath, but with an important difference: where the path veers off the line of the Wall, this account stays with it and allows you to examine the remains most other walkers do not see (and most other guidebooks do not describe). Profusely illustrated with more than 100 photographs and plans, it is the perfect archaeological companion to your walk along Hadrian's Wall, regardless of whether you take it with you on your ebook reader or smartphone, or prefer to sit in the comfort of your favourite armchair and let others experience the rain and blisters whilst you enjoy the text and pictures.
Author : M.C. Bishop
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473837472
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain written by M.C. Bishop and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Matthew Symonds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108381936
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Protecting the Roman Empire written by Matthew Symonds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman army enjoys an enviable reputation as an instrument of waging war, but as the modern world reminds us, an enduring victory requires far more than simply winning battles. When it came to suppressing counterinsurgencies, or deterring the depredations of bandits, the army frequently deployed small groups of infantry and cavalry based in fortlets. This remarkable installation type has never previously been studied in detail, and shows a new side to the Roman army. Rather than displaying the aggressive uniformity for which the Roman military is famous, individual fortlets were usually bespoke installations tailored to local needs. Examining fortlet use in north-west Europe helps explain the differing designs of the Empire's most famous artificial frontier systems: Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall, and the Upper German and Raetian limites. The archaeological evidence is fully integrated with documentary sources, which disclose the gritty reality of life in a Roman fortlet.
Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 154164445X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Wall written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts, who inhabited the North? Or was it merely a symbol of Roman power and wealth? What was life like for soldiers stationed along its expanse? How was the extraordinary structure built -- with what technology, skills, and materials? In Hadrian's Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy embarks on a historical and archaeological investigation, sifting fact from legend while simultaneously situating the wall in the wider scene of Roman Britain. The result is a concise and enthralling history of a great architectural marvel of the ancient world.
Author : David John Breeze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Wall written by David John Breeze and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.J. Van der Spek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317918495
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book A History of Market Performance written by R.J. Van der Spek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Efficient market structures are agreed by most economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be prerequisites for further economic growth. However, this is the first study to examine market performance as a whole, over such a large time period. Presenting a hitherto unknown and inaccessible corpus of data from ancient Babylonia, this international set of contributors are for the first time able to offer an in-depth study of market performance over a period of 2,500 years. The contributions focus on the market of staple crops, as they were crucial goods in these societies. Over this entire period, all papers provide a similar conceptual and methodological framework resting on a common definition of market performance combined with qualitative and quantitative analyses resting on new and improved price data. In this way, the book is able to combine analysis of the Babylonian period with similar work on the Roman, Early-and Late Medieval and Early Modern period. Bringing together input from assyriologists, ancient historians, economic historians and economists, this volume will be crucial reading for all those with an interest in ancient history, economic history and economics.
Author : David J. A. Taylor
Publisher : BAR British Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Forts on Hadrian's Wall written by David J. A. Taylor and published by BAR British Series. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed examination of selected stone buildings from each of the forts associated with Hadrian's Wall, with discussions of their form and construction, architectural details, construction sequence and dimensions. Comparisons are also made with structures from other sites within the Province. Lengthy appendices contain data sheets for primary and secondary forts and catalogues of decorated stonework. Includes numerous plans, reconstruction drawings and photographs.
Author : Alan Michael Whitworth
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Wall written by Alan Michael Whitworth and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentators throughout the ages have recorded the dismantling of Hadrian's Wall until sections were no more than a stone quarry. The main aim of this study is to explore where the wall has gone to, who robbed it, when, and for what reason.
Author : Henry Stedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Wall Path written by Henry Stedman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tablet written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112047793085 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brent L. Sterling
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589017277
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? written by Brent L. Sterling and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defenses such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security. Sterling studies six famous defenses spanning 2,500 years, representing both democratic and authoritarian regimes: the Long Walls of Athens, Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain, the Ming Great Wall of China, Louis XIV’s Pré Carré, France’s Maginot Line, and Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Although many of these barriers were effective in the short term, they also affected the states that created them in terms of cost, strategic outlook, military readiness, and relations with neighbors. Sterling assesses how modern barriers against ground and air threats could influence threat perceptions, alter the military balance, and influence the builder’s subsequent policy choices. Advocates and critics of strategic defenses often bolster their arguments by selectively distorting history. Sterling emphasizes the need for an impartial examination of what past experience can teach us. His study yields nuanced lessons about strategic barriers and international security and yields findings that are relevant for security scholars and compelling to general readers.
