Books by W.Dirk Raat

Examines how the Mexican revolution brought change and often progress. This anthology illuminates the Mexican experience from Porfirio Diaz to petrodollars. It covers the twentieth-century Mexican culture and helps US readers understand not Mexico's relations with the Colossus of the North.

Focuses on the nineteenth-century Mexican history. This book contains twenty-six essays and primary documents that cover Mexico's Age of Caudillos. It covers major eras in the early national development of Mexico: Independence, the age of Santa Anna, La Reforma and the French Intervention, and the Porfiriato.