Will Fowler

Biographic Data

ID704793
NAMEWill Fowler
GIVEN NAMESWill
FAMILY NAMEFowler
SIGNATUREFOWLER W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of St Andrews
ORCID0000-0003-2301-0749
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • El Primer Imperio Mexicano (1821–1823)

    Will FowlerARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2026

  • Rethinking Mid-nineteenth-century Mexican Conservatism

    Will FowlerARTICLEMexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos2024

    This article reassesses the nature of mid-nineteenth-century Mexican conservatism during the 1857–61 Civil War. It demonstrates that there was no easily distinguishable conservative ideology, noting the contribution moderate liberals made to the tacubayista cause and finding much in General Miguel Miramón’s 1859 manifesto that was strikingly liberal. However, notwithstanding the conservatives’ divisions and muddled politics, it argues that they w…

  • Searching for the Republic of the Rio Grande

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2023

    The history of the attempt that was made to create the separate Republic of the Rio Grande in northern Mexico, in the wake of the Texan 1835–36 revolution of independence, is one that has, to date, eschewed serious study. Unlike the secession of Texas or the repeated occasions in which Yucatán temporarily broke away from Mexico during the first half of the nineteenth century, the events that almost led to the birth of a new nation in northeast Me…

  • Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in Early Colonial El Salvador

    Open AccessWilliam R Fowler, Will Fowler et al.CHAPTERMaterial Encounters and…2019

    In this chapter we explore the material encounters and indigenous transformations that took place in two different times and places in the Central American Republic of El Salvador, which in the early colonial period formed part of the audiencia of Guatemala. The cases consist of (1) the early Spanish colonial villa (town) of San Salvador -now the archaeological site of Ciudad Vieja -during the second quarter of the sixteenth century, and (2) the …

  • A New Journal Based on an Old Idea…thirty Years Later

    Open AccessWilliam R Fowler, Will FowlerARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2019

    On a hot, muggy afternoon in late August 1987, two young Mesoamericanist archaeologists-one a Mayanist, the other a Mexicanist-sat in a borrowed office at Vanderbilt University and began a conversation about the need for a new journal of Mesoamerican studies. Steve Houston and I had just arrived on campus to become part of the expansion of the newly formed Department of Anthropology. Renovation of our offices was incomplete, so we shared an offic…

  • Central America

    Open AccessWilliam R Fowler, Will FowlerCHAPTEREncyclopedia Of Global Archaeology2018

  • Stephen B. Neufeld. The Blood Contingent

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    It is remarkable that the regular Mexican army in the long nineteenth century (1810–1910) has attracted, comparatively, so little attention in the historiography considering how important an institution it was, in sociocultural, political, and, evidently, military terms. Throughout the nineteenth century it affected people’s lives through its methods of forced recruitment, at times providing a space for social mobility like no other institution o…

  • Special Issue Introduction

    Open AccessWilliam R Fowler, Will FowlerARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2018References: 8

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  • First Impressions

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies2018References: 16

    Henry George Ward'sMexico in 1827(published in 1828) is one of the most exhaustive accounts of Mexico and its mining activities in the years following its independence from Spain. Written with a meticulous attention to detail, it provided a unique first-hand interpretation both of Mexico's early governments' achievements and of the not insignificant problems they had as yet to overcome. It highlighted the risks and opportunities Mexico presented …

  • The Lawyer of the Church

    Will FowlerARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2017

    Although the early republican and midcentury reform periods in Mexico have attracted increasing interest in recent years, they continue to be comparatively neglected by the historiography. This is obvious when it comes to the history of Mexico's nineteenth-century conservatives. Condemned by the triumphant liberal historians of the latter half of the nineteenth century for being traitors, they have remained an unpopular subject ever since. While …

  • En defensa de la biografía

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLESecuencia2017

    El propósito de este ensayo es resaltar la importancia de la biografía como método para hacer "una historia total". Se defienden los méritos de los estudios biográficos al hacerse hincapié en lo que nos permiten descubrir en términos de historia pública y privada, política, social, económica, jurídi- ca, diplomática, militar y cultural. A partir de los logros de una selección de biografías recientes que ha revolucionado la manera en que la histor…

  • Long-form experimental film and the BFI Production Board

    Will Fowler, William FowlerARTICLEMoving Image Review & Art Journal…2017

  • Independent Mexico

    Will FowlerBOOKIndependent Mexico2016

  • Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley. Forced Marches

    Will FowlerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley's edited volume is a most welcome contribution to what remains a remarkably underresearched field: the history of the Mexican armed forces. It includes a jointly written introduction as well as individual chapters by Fallaw and Rugeley and five other scholars (Daniel S. Haworth, Stephen Neufeld, Benjamin T. Smith, Thomas Rath, and Paul Gillingham), with David Nugent providing a particularly thoughtful concluding essay…

  • Ausentes del universo

    Will FowlerARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2014

    To this day few scholars have given any particular attention to nineteenth-century Latin American political thought. Or, to put it differently, any notion that nineteenth-century Latin American political thinkers were original or came up with novel political ideologies, systems, practices, or philosophies has been either not given serious consideration or quite simply ignored. The prevalent view is that all the big ideas originated mainly in Euro…

  • Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados

    Will FowlerBOOKMalcontents, Rebels, and…2012

  • Michael Costeloe (1939-2011)

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLEThe Americas A Quarterly Review…2012References: 5

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  • Forceful Negotiations

    Will FowlerBOOKForceful Negotiations2011

  • El pronunciamiento mexicano del siglo XIX. Hacia una nueva tipología

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLEEstudios de Historia Moderna y…2010Cited by: 6References: 1

    TRAS LA GUERRA DE INDEPENDENCIA (1810-1821) ESTALLARON MÁS DE 1 500 PRONUNCIAMIENTOS ENTRE EL PLAN DE IGUALA DE 1821 Y EL PLAN DE TUXTEPEC DE 1876. EN VARIOS CASOS DEGENERARON EN ENFRENTAMIENTOS DE UNA VIOLENCIA ATROZ COMO EL SAQUEO DEL PARIÁN EN LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO DE 1828. EN OTROS RESULTARON EN GUERRAS CIVILES BRUTALES (1832, 1854-1855, 1858-1860). EN MUCHOS CASOS, SIN EMBARGO, SUS DEMANDAS FUERON ATENDIDAS O SOFOCADAS DEPENDIENDO DE CUÁNTOS P…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessWilliam R Fowler, Will Fowler et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2010Cited by: 4References: 31

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  • Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2009

  • Santa Anna of Mexico

    Will FowlerBOOKSanta Anna of Mexico2007

  • Conquered Conquistadors

    William R Fowler, Will FowlerARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2007Cited by: 6

  • All the President's Women

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLEFeminist Review2005References: 3

    The objective of this article is to contribute towards a fuller critical understanding of gender relations/politics in mid-19th-century Spanish America. Its aim is to provide an account of the relationship Mexican President General Antonio López de Santa Anna established with his two wives. This study is particularly concerned with the representative value of Santa Anna's case in terms of 19th-century gender relations and the macho stereotype of …

  • Joseph Welsh

    Open AccessWill FowlerARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies2004Cited by: 1

    Joseph Welsh was the British Vice Consul in the port of Veracruz at the time of the uprising of 1832 by General Antonio López de Santa Anna against the government of Anastasio Bustamante. Contravening the orders of his superiors, who reiterated the view that it was his obligation to observe the strictest neutrality in the conflict and not interfere in Mexican politics, Welsh found himself supporting Santa Anna and the rebels. As a result, at the …