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Camilla Townsend

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New York City, NY, The United States

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Camilla Townsend (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is professor of history at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). Her special interest is in the relations between indigenous peoples and Europeans throughout the Americas.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 6,914 ratings · 892 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs 4.09 avg rating — 5,237 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma 3.75 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico 4.10 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends 3.84 avg rating — 182 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren by Camilla Townsend, Nicky Kay Michael 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Indian History: A Documentary Reader 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whimsical Journeys of Lana and the Starry Grove: Discover Enchantment and Adventure Under the Night Sky 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For who can say which is the more empowered, them or us, if we can speak to each other successfully across the chasm of time and difference? Do we ourselves not become wiser and stronger every time we grasp the perspective of people whom we once dismissed?”
― Camilla Townsend

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“Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only silence”
― Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

tags: aztecs, indigenous-peoples, invaders

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“As part of the evolving belief that the Indians would be only too glad to become literal and figurative tribute-payers to the English nation, contemporary scholars had worked out an interesting theory: the indigenous Americans, they claimed, were very much like the ancient Britons--who had themselves been civilized by the Romans. This theory was both condescending and yet at the same time beautifully unprejudiced. On the one hand, it justified English insistence that they were superior in every regard at the present time; on the other, it acknowledged that there were no differences between English and natives.”
― Camilla Townsend, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

tags: indians, native-americans, paradox, prejudice

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