The cities of Roman Africa
Rome antique, Ancient Rome, Africa, Afrique, cité, espace urbain, culture urbaine, genèse des villes, ville détruite, archéologie, Sears Gareth, histoire urbaine
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> The Roman province of Africa was one of richest in the Empire and as a result has some of the most spectacular remains. "The Cities of Roman Africa" examines the development of urban space and cultural life in this province from the beginnings of Roman rule in the second century BC to the fall of the province of Africa to the Vandals in AD 439.<br /> <br /> In this engaging and strikingly illustrated new book, Gareth Sears considers the incorporation of Roman culture into Africa, and its use by African populations and, in particular, their elites. The author also explores the persistence of pre-Roman cultures, and how these factors affected the evolution of the cities, intellectual life and even entertainment under the Republic and Empire.<br /> <br /> <b>Gareth Sears</b> is a lecturer in Roman History at the University of Birmingham. He is a specialist on Roman North Africa, and has co-directed archaeological work at the city of Cyrene in Libya for the Cyrenaica Archaeological Project.</div> </div>
Gareth Sears
The History Press
March 2011
160
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Les jeunes et l'amour dans les cités
jeune, cité, banlieue, vie amoureuse, sexualité
Dans le cadre d’une enquête dans quatre "cités" de la banlieue parisienne, une soixantaine de filles et de garçons, âgés de 15 à 20 ans, racontent leur entrée dans la vie amoureuse, ses déboires et ses félicités.
L’étude de leurs relations amoureuses permet de restituer sous les faux-semblants une réalité complexe, faite aussi de femmes et de filles, et du même coup de sortir ces dernières de leur rôle nécessairement secondaire (victimes des garçons/hommes, violées, voilées, recluses).
Ce livre qui restitue largement la parole des jeunes eux-mêmes interroge une domination masculine aussi certaine qu’ambiguë.
Le grand mérite de l’auteure est de s’inscrire en faux contre l’habitude prise de ne décliner les "jeunes des cités" qu’au masculin, en capuches, baskets et machisme assorti.
Elle apporte un démenti à toute une série d’approches, politiques, médiatiques et le cas échéant sociologiques qui tirent parti de cette domination masculine affichée pour stigmatiser deux fois les banlieues, et spécialement les milieux issus de l’immigration : en caricaturant les garçons, en niant les filles.
Isabelle Clair est sociologue au laboratoire GTM "Genre, Travail, Mobilité" du CNRS, Université Paris 8.
Isabelle Clair
http://www.armand-colin.com/livre/305961/les-jeunes-et-l-amour-dans-les-cites.php
Armand Colin
2008-04-16
304
FR
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The urban mind : Cultural and environmental dynamics
, archéologie, cité, genèse des villes, société urbaine, identité, changement climatique, culture urbaine, citadin, histoire urbaine
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NC
Uppsala Universitet
2010
618
Ouvrage
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and space
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii, Ostie, Pompéi, archéologie, cité, histoire urbaine, mobilité, société urbaine, Laurence Ray, Newsome David J.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people and materials shaped urban development.<br /> <br /> The chapters in this book examine the impressions left by the movement of people and vehicles as indentations in the archaeological and historical record, and as impressions upon the Roman urban consciousness. Through a broad range of historical issues, this volume studies movement as it is found at the city gate, in public squares and on the street, and as it is represented in texts. Its broad objective is to make movement meaningful for understanding the economic, cultural, political, religious, and infrastructural behaviours that produced different types and rhythms of interaction in the Roman city.<br /> <br /> This volume's interdisciplinary approach will inform the understanding of the city in classics, ancient history, archaeology, and architectural history, as well as cultural studies, town planning, urban geography, and sociology.</div> </div> <b>Ray Laurence</b> is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent<br /> <b>David J. Newsome</b> was awarded his PhD in 2010 from the University of Birmingham</div> </div>
NC
Oxford University Press
November 2011
464
Ouvrage
Settlement, urbanization, and population
Roman Empire, Empire romain, population, démographie, économie, archéologie, cité, urbanisation, Méditerranée, Mediterranean, Bowman Alan, Wilson Andrew
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The analyses offered here highlight the issues of regional and temporal variation in Italy, Spain, Britain, Egypt, Crete, and Asia Minor from classical Greece to the early Byzantine period. The chapters fall into two main groups, the first dealing with the evidence for rural settlement, as revealed by archaeological field surveys, and the attendant methodological problems of extrapolating from that evidence a view of population; and the second with city populations and the phenomenon of urbanization. They proceed to consider hierarchies of settlement in the characteristic classical pattern of city plus territory, and the way in which those entities are defined from the highest to the lowest level: the empire as 'city of Rome plus territory', then regional and local hierarchies, and, more precisely, the identity and the nature of the 'instruments' which enables them to function in economic cohesion.</div> <b>Contents:</b></div> </div> A. Bowman and A. Wilson - Introduction</div> </div> Survey method and data:</div> S. Price - Estimating Ancient Greek populations: The evidence of field survey</div> R. Witcher - Missing persons? Models of Mediterranean regional survey and ancient populations</div> D. Mattingly - Calculating ploughzone demographics: Some insights from arid zone surveys</div> P. Attema and T. de Haas - Rural settlement and population extrapolation, a case study from the ager of Antium, central Italy (350 BC - AD 400)</div> </div> Urbanization</div> N. Morley - Cities, demography, and development in the Roman Empire</div> A. Wilson - City sizes and urbanization in the Roman Empire</div> A. Marzano - Rank-size analysis of Roman cities in Iberia and Britain</div> J. Hanson - The urban system of Roman Asia Minor and wider urban connectivity</div> S. Keay and G. Earl - Towns and territories in Roman Baetica</div> A. Bowman - Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: Population and settlement</div> </div> <b>Alan Bowman </b>is Camden Professor of Ancient History, Director for the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, and Fellow of Brasenose College. <br /> <b>Andrew Wilson</b> is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies.</div> </div>
NC
Oxford University Press USA
January 2012
384
Ouvrage
The city-state in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland, territory, region
, cité, Europe, histoire urbaine, gouvernance, politique de la ville, territoire, Scott Tom
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state, or else on their artistic and cultural achievements, above all in Italy. Much less attention has been devoted to the cities' territorial expansion: why, how, and with what consequences cities in the urban belt, stretching from central and northern Italy over the Alps to Switzerland, Germany, and the low countries, succeeded (or failed) in constructing sovereign polities, with or without dependent territories.<br /> <br /> Tom Scott goes beyond the customary focus on the leading Italian city-states to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of the Swiss city-states and the imperial cities of Germany. He criticizes current typologies of the city-state in Europe advanced by political and social scientists to suggest that the city-state was not a spent force in early modern Europe, but rather survived by transformation and adaption. He puts forward instead a typology which embraces both time and space by arguing for a regional framework for analysis which does not treat city-states in isolation but within a wider geopolitical setting.</div> </div> <b>Tom Scott</b> is Honorary Professor, School of History, University of St Andrews</div> </div>
Tom Scott
Oxford University Press
February 2012
400
Ouvrage
La ville antique
, histoire urbaine, cité, ville antique, Lafon Xavier, Sartre Maurice, Marc Jean-Yves, pinol Jean-Luc
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b><br /> <br /> Les premières villes, entendues comme espaces regroupant plusieurs centaines, voire milliers, d’habitants, ne sont pas nées en Europe.<br /> Toutefois c’est dans ce cadre géographique que naît et se développe un nouveau type d’organisation à qui l’on attribue de façon générique le nom de "cité". C’est plus particulièrement dans le monde grec et dans le monde italique que s’élabore ce modèle présentant des modalités urbanistiques progressivement élaborées, un mode de gouvernement généralement autonome, le tout conduisant à un genre de vie et de culture spécifiques à ces sociétés urbaines.<br /> <br /> Ce premier volume tente de définir les conditions de cette naissance et de la diffusion du concept tout autour de la Méditerranée, dans le cadre géographique qui devient celui de l’Empire romain, avant les transformations à mettre en relation avec la diffusion du christianisme et la création d’un nouveau modèle urbain. La cité antique ne constitue pas une catégorie immuable mais les fondements matériels mais surtout intellectuels ainsi établis continueront de peser sur les développements ultérieurs des villes européennes. <br /> <br /> <b>Xavier Lafon</b> enseigne l’archéologie romaine à l’université de Provence.<br /> <b>Maurice Sartre</b> est professeur émérite d’histoire ancienne à l’université François-Rabelais (Tours)<br /> <b>Jean-Yves Marc</b> est professeur d’archéologie classique à l’université de Strasbourg.<br /> <b>Jean-Luc Pinol</b> (dir.) est professeur d’histoire contemporaine à l’ENS de Lyon</div> </div>
Points
4 novembre 2011
427
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