Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico (review)

Habsburgs offer striking and instructive parallels that are not explored here. Though limited at times, this book nevertheless makes a useful contribution not only to seventeenth-century Swedish national history but also to the histories of the three Stuart kingdoms and to early modern migration studies. Clearly structured and well written, this book is worth reading, especially alongside the recent work of other historians of the Scottish, Irish and English—rather than “British”—military Diasporas.