Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Annotated Bibliography:

  1. Annotated Bibliography:


    1. Reader,John. Cities. 1 ed. London, England: William Heinemann, 2004.


    Took basic background information about the first city. Also found basic ideas and ideals about the first cities.


    1. Hammond,Mason. The City in the Ancient World. 1 ed. Lester J. Bartson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1972.

    Found information pertaining to the foundations of Rome and the reasons and precursors to Roman city evolution.


    1. Gelbert, Doug. "Quonset Hut building: the timeless design." 2009.http://beta.essortment.com/21193-quonset-hut-building-timeless-design.html (accessed 11/01/2010).


    Found basic background information about the quonset hut. It was the first site seen and thus it provided a foundation for further research. Took the term: “American ingenuity”.


    1. Carlson and Carpenter, Eirk and Erica. "BASE: The Quonset Hut." 2000.http://quonsetpoint.artinruins.com/quonset_hut.htm (accessed 11/01/2010).


    Took some drawings and pictures from the site. It was useful to gather further information and analysis on the overall use of the quonset hut and how important it actually was.


    1. Scaruffi, Piero. "A time-line of the Roman empire." 1999.http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/romans.html (accessed 12/01/2010).


    Used as reference for dates concerning Rome and Roman military. Not extremely useful by very handing to associate events with dates, certain time periods, and certain individuals.


    1. Wikipedia Encyclopedia, "wapedia.." 06/01/2010.http://wapedia.mobi/en/Castrum (accessed 13/01/2010).


    Very usuful, found great information concerning almost every aspect of the castra. Also took some pictures from the site.

    1. Ramsay, William. "Castra." 02/12/2009.http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Castra.html (accessed 12/10/2010).

    Great site, find information about various castras. Found information about the geometry and symmetry of the castra. Also lots of terminology.


    1. Cavazzi, Franco. "The Founding of Rome." 07/04/2007.http://www.roman-empire.net (accessed 12/01/2010).


    Used for the story of how Rome was founded, also took some pictures from the site. Also lots of information about the Roman army ranks and structure.


    9.Hilde, John R . "Imperial Roman Army Reforms." http://ezinearticles.com/?Imperial-Roman-Army-Reforms&id=1065305 (accessed 17/01/2010).


    Used to find information about the Roman army reforms and why certain reforms happen.


    1. History Net Group, "The Romans." 2000.http://www.historyonthenet.com/Romans/roman_army.htm (accessed 10/01/2010).


    Found information about Roman military structure and divisions within that structure.


    1. Spansih Art, "THE HISTORY of the SPANISH ARCHITECTURE ." http://www.spanisharts.com/arquitectura/imagenes/roma/astorga_plano.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.spanisharts.com/arquitectura/imagenes/roma/i_ciudad_astorga.html&usg=__ZKm5JkZ13x8I7j1buRq8mFCxiLA=&h=293&w=450&sz=32&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=j7TSyyCcGOpkCM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dastroga_plano%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1 (accessed 10/19/2010).


    Took a picture of a city plan.


    - Kemal Alladin

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