"Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs" By Camilla Townsend (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Video Title: Fifth Sun - Camilla Townsend in conversation with Eliga Gould. Source: JLF International. Date Published: October 18, 2021. Description:
Our knowledge and information of the Aztec empire, their history and their conquest, for generations has been informed by the western pen. Author and historian Camilla Townsend’s Cundill History Prize-winning Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs brings to light a complex and riveting history of the Aztecs based entirely on direct translations of the annals written in the neglected Nahuatl language. Townsend is the Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her other books include Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive. In conversation with University of New Hampshire history professor and writer Eliga Gould, she explores the precarious survival and brutal conquest of the people of the sun and their journey of endurance.Camilla Townsend is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in the United States. A specialist in the Nahuatl (or Aztec) language, she is the author of numerous books, the most recent being Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs, which won the 2020 Cundill Prize.
