Books by William M. Fowler

This edited collection explores how different dictators and authoritarian parties and factions have frequently succeeded in rising to power in modern Latin America, often retaining political and/or military control for long periods of time.

This book is a study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Mexico from the achievement of independence in 1821 to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's last government in 1853-55.

A study of Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, politician of independent Mexico, whose loyalty to Santa Anna and whose skills as a writer played a crucial role in enabling the Caudillo's repeated rise to power during this period. The work offers an insight into the political thought of the santanistas.

The chapters in this volume provide a varied yet consistent analysis of the ways in which ideologies have been used, misused, or abandoned in Latin America in the twentieth century.