| Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico Contributor(s): Vinson, Ben (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804750246 ISBN-13: 9780804750240 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: "This outstanding work is strikingly original, covering a new, important topic through exhaustive research in a wide variety of archives in Mexico and Spain. Vinson's ability to weave together his significant findings from archival research with commentary on other scholarship is praiseworthy and not commonly achieved." - John E. Kicza, Washington State University "Complementing Lyle N. McAlister's The "Fuero Militar" in New Spain, 1764-1800 and Christon I. Archer's The Army in Bourbon Mexico, 1760-1810, this volume by Vinson focuses on the participants in the free-colored militia of colonial Mexico. He draws his thorough analysis primarily from exhaustive investigations in Mexican national and regional archives. . . . Detailed tables and appendixes support his quantitative analysis. Upper-division undergraduates and above."--Choice |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | Military - General - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 355.37 |
| LCCN: 2001020609 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.26" W x 9.32" (0.93 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study uses the participation of free-colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militia as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial categorization, and issues of social mobility for racially stigmatized groups in colonial Mexico. |