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Telephone: 02476 523422 Home number: 01926 315948
Email: g.p.c.thomson@warwick.ac.uk or guy@maaruig.plus.com
Academic Profile
Guy P.C.Thomson, B.Sc.(econ), D.Phil., FRHS.
Reader in History.
Teaching Latin American History at Warwick since 1974.
Undergraduate Modules Taught
Themes and Problems in Latin American and Caribbean History (AM101)
Modern Mexico, 1810-Present (AM208)
Indians in the Americas since 1750 (AM403)
Mexico in the American Imagination 1910-1935 (Not available 2009-10)
Postgraduate Modules Taught
Ethnicity and Citizenship in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Latin America
Contributions to Core Course in MA in Race in the Americas
Selected Publications
Books:
Puebla de los Angeles. Industry and Society in a Mexican City, 1700-1850. (Westview Press, 1989)
Spanish Edition: Puebla de los Angeles. Industria y Sociedad de una Ciudad Mexicana, 1700-1850 (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla: 2002)
Politics, Patriotism and Popular Liberalism in Mexico Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra 1854-1917. (SR Books, 1999)
The Birth of Modern Politics in Spain. Democracy, Association and Revolution, 1854-75. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Edited Collections:
The European Revolutions of 1848 in the Americas (Institute of Latin American Studies, London, 2001)
Visiones del liberalismo. Política, identidad y cultura en la España del siglo XIX (University of Valencia, October 2008)
Articles and Chapters:
'La Colonización en el Departamento de Acayucán, Veracruz, 1824-34,' Historia Mexicana 24, (1974): 253-98.
'Mexico and Philadelphia: American Cities and the Enlightenment', History Today 34, (1984): 29-35.
'The Cotton Textile Industry in Puebla during the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries,' in The Economies of Mexico and Peru during the Late Colonial Period, 1760-1810 ed. Nils Jacobsen and Hans Jurgen Puhle, (Berlin, 1986), 169-202.
'Traditional and Modern Manufacturing in Mexico, 1821-1850,' in La formación de las economías latinoamericanas v los intereses ecónomicos europeos en la época de Simon Bolívar 1800-1850 ed.Reinhard Liehr, (Berlin, 1988), 55-87.
"Continuity and Change in Mexican Manufacturing, 1800-1870," in Jean Batou, ed,, Between Development and Underdevelopment The Precocious Attempts at Industrialization of the Periphery, 1800-1870 (Droz, Geneva, 1991), 255-302.
'Juan Francisco Lucas. Patriarch of the Sierra Norte de Puebla,' in The Human Tradition in Latin America ed. William H Beezley and Judith Ewell (SR Books, 1988),1-13.
'Bulwarks of Patriotic Liberalism: the National Guard, Philharmonic Corps and Patriotic Juntas in Mexico, 1847-1888,' Journal of Latin American Studies 22, 1990:31-68.
'Agrarian Conflict in the Municipality of Cuetzalan (Sierra de Puebla): The Rise and Fall of "Pala" Agustin Dieguillo, 1861-1894,' Hispanic American Historical Review 71, 1991:205-58.
'Popular Aspects of Liberalism in Mexico, 1848-1888,' Bulletin of Latin American Research 10, 1991, 121-52.
'Tres Municipios Serranos entre 1855 y 1889,' in El Liberalismo en México ed.Antonio Annino and Raymund Buve (Hamburg, 1993), 121-41.
'Los indios y el servicio militar en el México decimonónico. ¿ Leva o ciudadanía ?,' in Indio, Nación y Comunidad en el México del Siglo XIX ed. Antonio Escobar Ohmstede (Mexico, 1993), 207-52.
'The Ceremonial and Political Role of Village Bands, 1846-1974,' in Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico ed.William H Beezley, (SR Books, Wilmington, 1994), 564-625.
'Francisco Agustín Dieguillo: un liberal cuetzalteco decimonónico (1861-1894),' in Paisajes rebeldes Una larga noche de rebelión indígena ed.Jane-Dale Lloyd and laura Pérez Rosales,(Mexico, 1995), 77-148.
'Federalism and Cantonalism in Spain and Mexico, 1824-1892: Sovereignty and Territoriality,' in Wars, Parties and Nationalism Essays on the Politics and Society of Nineteenth-Century Latin America, ed. Eduardo Posada Carbó, (London, 1995), 27-54.
"'La Republique au Village' in Spain and Mexico, 1848-1888", in Hans-Joachim König and Marianne Wiesebron, Nation Building in Nineteenth Century Latin America Dilemmas and Conflicts Leiden, School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, 1998, pp. l37-62.
'La Contrarreforma en Puebla, 1854-1886', El Conservadurismo Mexicano en el Siglo XIX (1810-1910) eds. William Fowler and Humberto Morales Moreno, Mexico, 1999, 239-64
'Continuidad y cambio en la industria manufacturera mexicana, 1800-1870', La Industria Textil en México ed. Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, (Instituto Mora, Mexico, 1999), 53-113.
'Garibaldi and the Legacy of the 1848 Revolutions in Southern Spain', European History Quarterly 31, 2001, 353-97.
‘Memoria y memorias de la intervención europea en la Sierra de Puebla, 1868-1991’, Pueblos, comunidades y municipios frente a los proyectos modernizadores en América Latina, siglo XIX eds. Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Romana Falcón & Raymond Buce, (CEDLA, Amsterdam, 2002), pp. 145-168
‘Liberalism and Nation-Building in Mexico and Spain during the Nineteenth Century’, Studies in the Formation of the Nation State in Latin America ed. James Dunkerley, (Institute of Latin American Studies, London, 2002) , pp.189-211.
“Memoirs and Memories of the European Intervention in the Sierra de Puebla, 1868-1991”, in Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of. David A. Brading eds. Eric Van Young and Susan Deans-Smith, (Institute for the Study of the Americas, London, 2007), pp. 169-192.
“Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernities in the Hispanic World”, When was Latin America Modern ? eds. Stephen Hart and Nicola Miller, (Palgrave, 2007), pp.69-90.
“Aspectos populares del Liberalismo en Mexico, 1848-1888” in Interpretaciones del periodo de Reforma y Segundo Imperio ed. Josefina Zoraida Vázquez, (Mexico, Patria, 2007), pp.111-158.
“Mazzini y España, 1832-1872”, Historia Social No.59 (III), October 2007, 21-55.
“La revolución de Loja en julio de 1861: la conspiración de los carbonarios y la democracia en la España moderna”, in Visiones del Liberalismo Política, identidad y cultura en la España del siglo XIX eds., Guy Thomson and Alda Blanco (University of Valencia, 2008)
“Mazzini and Spain, 1820-1872”, in Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920 eds. Eugenio Biagini and C A Bayly, (The British Academy, London, 2008), pp.237-74.
“Mexican Liberals and the uses of the United States, 1829-1910” in Michael Steppatt (ed.) Americanisms. Discoursesof Exception, Exclsuion, Exchange (Universitatsverlag, Heidelberg, 2009), pp.301-16
“¿Convivencia o conflicto? Guerra, Etnia y Nación en el México del siglo XIX” in Historia Crítica de las Modernizaciones en México (CIDE, Mexico, 2009)
Research
Specialist in nineteenth-century Mexican and Spanish regional history. Doctoral research focussed on economic and social change in the Mexican city of Puebla de los Angeles over the late colonial and early republican periods. Research then shifted to the political and cultural history of the northern mountainous region of Puebla State over the later Nineteenth Century. Research focussed on the rise of Liberal leaders in the Sierra and their mastery of territory through the organisation of National Guard during the civil and patriotic struggles of the 1850s to 70s. The impact of the Liberal programme of constitutional and economic reforms on the Sierra's Indian communities was a particular focus of interest. This culminated in a biography of the Liberal Nahua cacique, Juan Francisco Lucas (1832-1917). In 1994 research shifted to Spain and the regional roots of the Democrat party in eastern Andalucia (1849-1874). This will published by Palgrave/ Macmillan on 18 December 2009. During study leave in 2008-09 research has shifted back to Mexico, initially around two small topics: 'Agustin Arrieta and Artisan Sociability in Puebla, 1820-1870' and 'The end of New Spain: Puebla and the Revolution of Ayutla'. A text book project on 'Mexicans and the Republic of the North, 1810-Present' is also envisaged. The broader arena of research will remain the formation and reception of Liberalism in 19th Century Spain and Mexico.
Current and recently supervised PhD and MA dissertations:
"Mexico and the Oil-Debt Boom: the Borrowers and the Lenders"
"Gabriel Barrios and the Puebla Sierra, 1910-1946"
"Land and Society in the Valley of Tulancingo (Mexico) during the Eighteenth century"
"The Mexico City Earthquake of 1985 and New Social Movements"
"Space, Planning and Mexicano Identity in Los Angeles, 1900-1950"
"Indigenous leaders and Indigenous Identity in south-eastern Mexico, 1970-1990"
"School Teachers in the State of Puebla, 1870-1940"
"Vice-royalties in the 18th C Hispanic World"
"Textile Workers and the Formation of the Mexican Working Class, 1850-1930"
