Citizeii'Breadwinners and Vagabond'Soldiers: Military Recruitment in Early Re…

This article is ahout the village-internal politics of military recruitment in the largely indigenous Mixteca mountair\s in Oaxaca, in the southwest of Mexico, in the first decades after independence. While Indians had not been allowed to serve in New Spdn's armed forces in the late colony, in the new repuhlic the requirement that communities send some of their merr\bers for armed service becam…