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Rome : an urban history from antiquity to the present / Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Rabun M., author.
- Rinne, Katherine Wentworth, author.
- Kostof, Spiro, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Italy--Rome--History.
- City and town life.
- Public spaces--Italy--Rome--History.
- Public spaces.
- City planning--Italy--Rome--History.
- City planning.
- City dwellers.
- History.
- Christianity--Social aspects.
- Christianity.
- Architecture and society.
- Italy--Rome.
- Architecture and society--Italy--Rome--History.
- Christianity--Social aspects--Italy--Rome--History.
- City dwellers--Italy--Rome--History.
- Rome (Italy)--Social life and customs.
- Rome (Italy).
- Rome (Italy)--Social conditions.
- Rome (Italy)--Geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 432 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1. A bend in the river
- 2. A storybook beginning
- 3. Ideological crossfire
- 4. Big men on the Campus
- 5. Res publica restitute
- 6. Memorials in motion : spectacle in the city
- 7. The concrete style
- 8. Remaking Rome's public core I
- 9. Remaking Rome's public core II
- 10. Crisis and continuity
- 11. Rus in urbe : a garden city
- 12. Administration, infrastructure, and disposal of the dead
- 13. Mapping, zoning, and sequestration
- 14. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome
- 15. Trophies and tituli : Christian infrastructure before Constantine
- 16. Walls make Christians : from fourth to fifth century
- 17. A tale of two Romes
- 18. The Rome of Goths and Byzantines
- 19. Christian foundations
- 20. From Domus Laterani to Romanum palatium
- 21. The Leonine City : St Peter's and the Borgo
- 22. Via Papalis, the Christian decumanus
- 23. The Urban theaters of imperium and SPQR
- 24. Housing daily life
- 25. Chaos in the fortified city
- 26. The Tiber River
- 27. Humanist Rome, absolutist Rome (1420-1527)
- 28. Planning Counter-Reformation Rome
- 29. Processions and populations
- 30. Magnificent palaces and rhetorical churches
- 31. Neoclassical Rome
- 32. Picturing Rome
- 33. Revolution and Risorgimento
- 34. Italian nationalism and romanità
- 35. A city turned inside out.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781139012911
- 1139012916
- Publisher Number:
- 99969998236
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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