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Professor Will Fowler

Professor Will Fowler Contact Details

wmf1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 462964
Office: Quad 33

Full research profile

Research and Teaching

Will Fowler is Professor of Latin American Studies. He is the author of Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853 (Westport, CT: 1998), Tornel and Santa Anna, The Writer and the Caudillo (Westport, CT: 2000), Latin America since 1780 (London, 2002; 2nd edition, 2008), and Santa Anna of Mexico (Lincoln, NE: 2007) (translated into Spanish as Santa Anna by the Universidad Veracruzana [2010; reprint 2011]). He has published numerous articles and edited twelve volumes on Mexican and Latin American political history. He recently coordinated a three-year AHRC-funded project on the dynamics and culture of the Mexican pronunciamiento (1821-76) (2007-2010), and is currently writing a monograph on The Pronunciamiento in Independent Mexico, 1821-1858. He teaches on the core undergraduate modules in the Department of Spanish, and coordinates three specialised options: SP1030 Introduction to Modern Latin America, SP3138 Mexico in the Nineteenth Century, and SP4008 Contemporary Spanish Language. At a postgraduate level he is, at present, supervising three PhD students, and contributes to the School's Master Mundus programme.

PhD Supervision

Melissa Boyd, Rosie Doyle, Leticia Neria, Francisco Antonio-Alfonso

Publications

Celebrating Insurrection: The Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento
Fowler, W. 2012 Lincoln, NE. & London: University of Nebraska Press . 303 p. (The Mexican Experience).
Research output : Book/Report Book

Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados: The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Fowler, W. 2012 Lincoln, NE. & London: University of Nebraska Press . (The Mexican Experience).
Research output : Book/Report Book

Santa Anna
Fowler, W. 2010 Xalapa, Veracruz (Mexico): Universidad Veracruzana . 534 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Gobernantes mexicanos, Tomo II: 1911-2000
Fowler, W. 2008 Fondo de Cultura Economica . 563 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Latin America since 1780. Second edition
Fowler, W. 2008 Hodder Education . 178 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Gobernantes mexicanos, Tomo I: 1821-1910
Fowler, W. 2008 Fondo de Cultura Economica . 488 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Santa Anna of Mexico
Fowler, W. 2007 University of Nebraska Press . 501 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America
Fowler, W. & Lambert, P. 2006 Palgrave Macmillan . 244 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Presidentes mexicanos Tomo II (1911-2000)
Fowler, W. 2004 Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana .
Research output : Book/Report Book

Presidentes mexicanos Tomo I (1824-1911)
Fowler, W. 2004 Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana .
Research output : Book/Report Book

Latin America 1800 - 2000
Fowler, W. 2002 Hodder Headline (incl Arnold) .
Research output : Book/Report Book

Tornel and Santa Anna: The Writer and the Caudillo (Mexico 1795-1853)
Fowler, W. 2000 Greenwood Press . 308 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853.
Fowler, W. 1998 Greenwood Press . 344 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

Ideologues and Ideologies in Latin America
Fowler, W. 1997 Greenwood Press .
Research output : Book/Report Book

Authoritarianism in Latin America Since Independence
Fowler, W. 1996 Greenwood Press .
Research output : Book/Report Book

 

Rafael del Riego and the Spanish Origins of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento
Fowler, W. 2013 In: Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s. Brown, M. & Paquette, G. (eds.). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press , p. 46-63. 18 p.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

"As Empty a Piece of Gasconading Stuff As I Have Ever Read:" The Pronunciamiento Through Foreign Eyes
Fowler, W. 2012 In: Celebrating Insurrection. The Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento. Lincoln, NE. & London: University of Nebraska Press , p. 247-272. 26 p. (The Mexican Experience).
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Introduction: The Damned and the Venerated: The Memory, Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento
Fowler, W. 2012 In: Celebrating Insurrection. The Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento. Fowler, W. (ed.). Lincoln, NE. & London: University of Nebraska Press , p. xvii-xlii. 26 p. (The Mexican Experience).
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

"The Pronunciamientos of Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1821-1867"
Fowler, W. 2012 In: Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados: The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Fowler, W. (ed.). Lincoln, Ne. & London: University of Nebraska Press , p. 205-235. 31 p. (The Mexican Experience).
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

"Introduction: Understanding Individual and Collective Insurrectionary Action in Independent Mexico, 1821-1876"
Fowler, W. 2012 In: Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados: The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Fowler, W. (ed.). Lincoln, NE. & London: University of Nebraska Press , p. xvii-xxxvi. 20 p. (The Mexican Experience).
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Entre la legalidad y la legitimidad: Elecciones, pronunciamientos, y la voluntad general de la nación, 1821-1857
Fowler, W. 2010 In: Elections and Representative Government in Mexico (1810-1910). Aguilar Rivera , J. A. (ed.). Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica/IFE , p. 95-120. 26 p.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Santa Anna y el Plan de San Luis Potosí, 1823
Fowler, W. 2009 In: Capítulos de la historia de San Luis Potosí, siglos XVI a XX. Salazar Mendoza, F. . M. & Ruiz Medrano, C. R. (eds.). Archivo Histórico de San Luis Potosí/Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí , p. 137-160.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

La solución desesperada: el monarquismo renuente de Antonio López de Santa Anna (1853-1864)
Fowler, W. 2008 In: Experiencias republicanas y monárquicas en México, América Latina y Espana. Siglos XIX y XX. Landavazo, M. A. & Sánchez Andrés, A. (eds.). p. 349-377.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

La tercera y cuarta presidencia de Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1841-1844)
Fowler, W. 2008 In: Gobernantes mexicanos, Tomo I: 1821-1910. Fowler, W. M. (ed.). Fondo de Cultura Economica , p. 159-184.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Introduccion. El presidencialismo en Mexico
Fowler, W. 2008 In: Gobernantes mexicanos, Tomo I y Tomo II. Fowler, W. M. (ed.). Fondo de Cultura Economica , p. 13-25.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Mexico
Fowler, W. 2008 In: Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview. Volume 1. 1770-1880. Herb, G. H. & Kaplan, D. H. (eds.). ABC-CLIO , p. 344-357.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

La hispanofóbica hispanofilia de Antonio López de Santa Anna (México, 1794-1876)
Fowler, W. 2007 In: Imágenes e imaginarios sobre España en México, siglos XIX y XX. Sánchez Andrés, A., Pérez Vejo, T. & Landavazo, M. A. (eds.). Porrua , p. 1-34.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Los placeres y pesares de Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876)
Fowler, W. 2007 In: Gozos y sufrimientos en la historia de Mexico.. Gonzalbo Aizpuru, P. & Zarate Toscano, V. (eds.). El Colegio de Mexico , p. 261-288.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

The Children of the Chingada
Fowler, W. 2006 In: Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America. Fowler, W. & Lambert, P. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan , p. 1-18.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Spanish American Revolutions of Independence
Fowler, W. 2006 In: Revolutionary movements in world history: from 1750 to the present. DeFronzo, J. V. (ed.). ABC-CLIO , Vol. 3 , p. 810-824.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

 

Los pronunciamientos mexicanos de las primeras decadas nacionales, 1821-1855
Fowler, W. 2013 In : 20/10 Mexico: Nacion y Modernidad, 1821-1909 .
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

In Memoriam Michael Costeloe (1939-2011)
Fowler, W. 2012 In : The Americas . p. 593-597. 5 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

El pronunciamiento mexicano del siglo XIX. Hacia una nueva tipología
Fowler, W. Jul-2009 In : Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México . 38 , p. 5-34.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Adventuring through Spanish colonies: Simon Bolivar, foreign mercenaries and the birth of new nations
Fowler, W. Aug-2008 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 40 , p. 578-579. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Heroes
Fowler, W. Feb-2008 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 40 , p. 143-145. 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

'Intersected identities'. Strategies of visualization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexican culture
Fowler, W. 2008 In : History of Photography . 32 , p. 204-206. 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

British Perceptions of Mid-Nineteenth Century Mexican Society: The Topos of the Bandit in Madame Calderón de la Barca´s Life in Mexico (1843)
Fowler, W. Jan-2007 In : Septentrión . 1 , 1 , p. 64-87.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Invention of the mexican political system: form of government and governability in XIXth century Mexico
Fowler, W. May-2006 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 38 , p. 446-448. 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

All the President's Women: The Wives of General Antonio López de Santa Anna in 19th Century Mexico
Fowler, W. Mar-2005 In : Feminist Review . 79 , 1 , p. 52-68. 17 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Joseph Welsh: A British Santanista (Mexico, 1832)
Fowler, W. Feb-2004 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 36 , 1 , p. 29-56. 28 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's first Black Indian president
Fowler, W. Jan-2004 In : Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Liverpool . 81 , p. 134-134. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Latin America in the middle period, 1750-1929
Fowler, W. Nov-2003 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 35 , p. 909-910. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The liberal cloak: Emergency powers in Mexico, 1821-1876
Fowler, W. Nov-2003 In : Hispanic American Historical Review . 83 , p. 759-760. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

On the Mexicanization of the Second Empire: Political symbols of the imperialists
Fowler, W. Aug-2003 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 35 , p. 636-638. 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Born in blood and fire: A concise history of Latin American
Fowler, W. May-2003 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 35 , p. 397-398. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Porfirio Diaz
Fowler, W. Nov-2002 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 34 , p. 965-966. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Fiestas santanistas: la celebración de Santa Anna en la villa de Xalapa, 1821-1855
Fowler, W. Oct-2002 In : Historia Mexicana . 52 , 2 , p. 391-447. 57 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Texas by Teran: The diary kept by General Manuel de Mier y Teran on his 1828 inspection of Texas
Fowler, W. Nov-2001 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 33 , p. 882-883. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Politics of dissent - The debate over monarchism (Mexico, 1848-1850)...uncertainties of liberalism
Fowler, W. Aug-2001 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 33 , p. 622-623. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

A concise history of Mexico
Fowler, W. Feb-2001 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 33 , p. 171-172. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Wealth and power in provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the late colony to the revolution
Fowler, W. Sep-2000 In : English Historical Review . 115 , p. 996-997. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Las propiedades veracruzanas de Santa Anna
Fowler, W. 2000 In : Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia, Mexico . XLIII , p. 63-92.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Forging Mexico, 1821-1835
Fowler, W. Jun-1999 In : Historical Journal . 42 , p. 591-593. 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The origins of Mexican national politics, 1808-1847
Fowler, W. Feb-1999 In : Journal of Latin American Studies . 31 , p. 195-196. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Ideas and ideologies in twentieth-century Latin America
Fowler, W. Oct-1998 In : Modern Language Review . 93 , p. 1139-1140. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Valentín Gómez Farías: Perceptions of Radicalism in Independent Mexico, 1821-1847
Fowler, W. 1996 In : Bulletin of Latin American Research . 15 , 1 (January) , p. 39-62.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Introduction: The Forgotten Century, 1810-1910
Fowler, W. 1996 In : Bulletin of Latin American Research . 15 , 1 (January) , p. 1-6.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Dreams of Stability: Mexican Political Thought During the 'Forgotten Years'. An Analysis of the Beliefs of the Creole Intelligentsia (1821-1853)
Fowler, W. 1995 In : Bulletin of Latin American Research . 14 , 3 (September) , p. 287-312.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

 

Revolution, independence and new nations of America
Fowler, W. Apr-2008 In : The Americas . 64 , p. 637-639. 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Book/Film/Article review

Vagrants and citizens: Politics and the masses in Mexico City from colony to republic
Fowler, W. Oct-2002 In : The Americas . 59 , 2 , p. 274-276. 3 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Book/Film/Article review

The moderate liberalism in Mexico, 1852-1864
Fowler, W. Oct-1999 In : The Americas . 56 , 2 , p. 304-305. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Book/Film/Article review

 

Introducción: el presidencialismo en México
Fowler, W. & Fowler, W. (ed.) 2004
Research output : Other contribution

Santa Anna: 'el hombre visible por excelencia' (México, 1821-1855)
Fowler, W. , Chust, M. (ed.) & Minguez, V. (ed.) 2003
Research output : Other contribution

Civil Conflict in Independent Mexico, 1821 - 1857: an Overview
Fowler, W. & Earle, R. (ed.) 2000
Research output : Other contribution

La revuelta del 2 de diciembre de 1822: una perspectiva regional
Fowler, W. & Ortiz Escamilla, J. 2000
Research output : Other contribution

Goatsuckers, Guerrillas and Democracy: Mexico in the 1990s
Fowler, W. Mar-1999
Research output : Other contribution

Carlos María de Bustamante: un tradicionalista liberal
Fowler, W. , Fowler, W. (ed.) & Morales Moreno, H. (ed.) 1999
Research output : Other contribution

Introducción: una (re)definición del conservadurismo mexicano del siglo diecinueve
Fowler, W. , Morales Moreno, H. , Fowler, W. (ed.) & Morales Moreno, H. (ed.) 1999
Research output : Other contribution

El pensamiento político de los moderados, 1838 - 1850: el proyecto de Mariano Otero
Fowler, W. , Connaughton, B. (ed.) & Pérez Toledo, C. I. . S. (ed.) 1999
Research output : Other contribution

El conservadurismo mexicano en el siglo XIX (1810 - 1910)
Fowler, W. & Morales Moreno, H. 1999
Research output : Other contribution

El pensamiento político de los santanistas, 1821 - 1855
Fowler, W. & Serrano Ortega, L. J. . J. A. (ed.) 1998
Research output : Other contribution

The Liberal Origins of Mexican Conservatism, 1821 - 1832
Fowler, W. 1997
Research output : Other contribution

Stressing the importance of ideological discourse
Fowler, W. & Fowler, W. (ed.) 1997
Research output : Other contribution

The Mexican Press and the Collapse of Representative Government During the Presidential Elections of 1828
Fowler, W. 1996
Research output : Other contribution

The Repeated Rise of General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the so-called 'Age of Chaos' (Mexico, 1821-1855)
Fowler, W. & Fowler, W. (ed.) 1996
Research output : Other contribution

Military Political Identity and Reformism in Independent Mexico. An Analysis of the 'Memorias de Guerra' (1821-1855)
Fowler, W. 1996
Research output : Other contribution