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.

Ranging from the precontact colonial eras of each country to the present-day administrations of Vincente Fox and George W. Bush, this text focuses on the economic, cultural and politic trends ad events that have shaped the ways that Americans and Mexicans have regarded each other over the centuries.