Beyond the Walled City - Colonial Exclusion in Havana

“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 the author

Guadalupe García is Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University.  

Summary

Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, the author shows how the production of urban space was explicitly centered on the politics of racial exclusion and social control.

Additional text

"García’s rich and thought-provoking offers a lot for scholars working in different fields."

Product details

• Authors: Guadalupe Garcaia, Guadalupe Garcia, Garcia Guadalupe
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780520286047
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28604-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Cuba, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas