مؤلف: Camilla Townsend

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for u …

For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts, " telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memo …

For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts, " telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memo …

Malintzin –como la llamaban los hablantes del náhuatl–, doña Marina para los españoles, Malinche para la posteridad, ha sido considerada como traidora a su pueblo: un …

Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. ‘Malintzin, ‘ at least, was what the Indians called …

Indigenous breadsellers riot over a Spanish monopoly scheme; Spanish authorities plan to remove native people from the city; indigenous people struggle to construct a splendid church; the city’s inha …

El quinto sol es el que iluminó a los aztecas, el que los acompañó en su peregrinar desde la mítica Aztlán hasta el islote que se convertiría en Tenochtitlan, el que inspiró su mitología y por ello m …

In November 1519, Hernando Corts walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story–and the story of what happened afterwards–has b …

In November 1519, Hernando Corts walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story–and the story of what happened afterwards–has b …

Parallel histories of workers in two port cities, Baltimore and Guayaquil, illustrate divergent paths in the development of the Americas.   The United States and the countries of Latin America w …

Im November 1519 kommt es zur weltberühmten Begegnung von Hernando Cortés mit dem Aztekenherrscher Moctezuma. Was damals passierte und was danach geschah, ist oft erzählt worden, aber vor allem so, w …

Parallel histories of workers in two port cities, Baltimore and Guayaquil, illustrate divergent paths in the development of the Americas.   The United States and the countries of Latin America w …

The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish. From their remote origins as migrating tri …

How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs?For decades, the popular image of the Mexica people better …

Remembering the woman known as Pocahontas and the myths surrounding her down to the present day This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the woman known as Pocahonta …

"Captivating . . . ideal for anyone interested in the true story of Pocahontas [and] historians and students interested in early Colonial American history." -Simone Bonim, History in Review …

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African …

The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move …