A fascinating contemporary account of Indian society in the 1830s, at the height of the East India Company's power.

A fascinating contemporary account of Indian society in the 1830s, at the height of the East India Company's power.

A fascinating contemporary account of Indian society in the 1830s, at the height of the East India Company's power.

During its history, the area of Downtown Los Angeles known as Bunker Hill has been viewed in many different ways; inaccessible, upscale, run-down, blighted, erased, renewed. These perceptions over the decades have always been open to interpretation and either agreed with or challenged. An area that has been subject to more change than any other place in the city, it has arguably invoked more passion and reverence than any other Los Angeles neighborhood, while inspiring equal amounts of disdain. Bunker Hill in the Rear-View Mirror: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of an Urban Neighborhood, an...