Carmen García holds a PhD in History, a degree in Information Sciences, a Master’s in Humanities, and a Master’s in Documentation.
She is a founding member of the Spanish Association of Military History.
As an officer in the Spanish Navy (Reserve), she has served in the Strategic Communication Section of the Spanish Chief of Defence Staff’s Office and in the Naval Archives Department at the Institute of Naval History and Culture.
In 2020, she was awarded the Ministry of Defence’s Postgraduate Research Prize for her work, later published under the title *Identidad histórica de la Armada Española* (Historical Identity of the Spanish Navy). In 2021, she published the book *Pioneras. Mujeres en la conquista de América* (Pioneers: Women in the Conquest of America) with Sekotia publishing house.
Certainly, ‘the Spanish Crown facilitated the travel of the wives of the colonisers to the New World, in such a way that laws were enacted and provisions were made that favoured this, and there were even some that required colonists to travel with their wives or to bring over those who had stayed in Spain’ (p. 59). Whether these were always enforced is another matter, not even with the aid of the Inquisition courts (which began functioning in Mexico in 1571).
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