Beyond the Walled City Colonial Exclusion in Havana [Hardcover]

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 Citytells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed. Examining imperial efforts to police urban space from the late sixteenth century onward, Guadalupe García 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 Citypoints to the ways in which colonialism is inscribed on modern topographies.

Guadalupe Garc?a?is Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University.??

An intimate study of the relationship between empire and urbanization,Beyond the Walled Cityguides us through the spatial history of colonial Cuba. Culling from Spanish and Cuban archives, Garc?as innovative research illuminates the significance of space to social hierarchies and imperial control. David Sartorius, author ofEver Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba