Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana - Softcover

García, Guadalupe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520286049 ISBN 13: 9780520286047

Publisher: University of California Press, 2016

Synopsis

One of the earliest and most important port cities in the New World, Havana quickly became a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. Beyond the Walled City tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, Guadalupe Garcia shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control. Connecting colonial governing practices to broader debates on urbanization, the regulation of public spaces, and the racial dislocation of urban populations, Beyond the Walled City points to the ways in which colonialism is inscribed on modern topographies.

About this title

About the Author:

Guadalupe Garcia is Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University.

From the Inside Flap:

"An intimate study of the relationship between empire and urbanization, Beyond the Walled City guides us through the spatial history of colonial Cuba. Culling from Spanish and Cuban archives, García's innovative research illuminates the significance of space to social hierarchies and imperial control." --David Sartorius, author of Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0520286049
• ISBN 13: 9780520286047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246