WILL FOWLER lectures in Latin American and Spanish History literature at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. As well as having edited four volumes of Mexican and Latin American political history, he is the author of Military Political Identity and Reformism in Independent Mexico, An Analysis of the Memorias de Guerra, 1821-1855 (1996), and Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853 (Greenwood, 1998).