‘For Honor and Defence’: Race and the Right to Bear Arms in Early Colonial Mexico.
The right to bear arms was one of the most exclusive sumptuary rights in early modern Iberia. The privilege of carrying weapons was transferred to Spanish America where it became a right reserved to Spaniards. This article examines over one hundred and fifty licenses to bear arms granted to non-Span...
| Publicado en: | Colonial Latin American Review Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 239 - 267 |
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Aug2012
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