Camilla Townsend is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (2006) and Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (2004).
"Here in this Year fully illustrates the fortunate product of scholarly collaboration. It is the first published translation of two Nahuatl annals from Tlaxcala and Puebla ... Townsend asserts that the texts offer an indigenous voice amidst a complicated post-contact terrain. Revealing the voice through translation, Here in this Year moves us another step closer to penetrating that world." - Glen David Kuecker, Canadian Journal of History "Here in This Year presents Nahuatl transcriptions and English translations of two important seventeenth-century annals histories from central Mexico. As a distinctive genre of Nahua writing, the annals are justifiably renowned for being among the richest sources on colonial Mexico's native societies. They provide rare and tantalizing perspectives written by Nahuas on their past. The publication of these two sources is a considerable contribution to the scholarly literature, especially with the excellent essays by Camilla Townsend and James Lockhart ... In sum, this visually handsome volume deserves a wide audience." - Richard Conway, Colonial Latin American Review "This work provides readers not only with an indigenous perspective of the social, political, and religious events of the region, but also with a nuanced understanding of the annals genre and the similarities and differences between examples from Tlaxcala and Puebla ... Townsend's excellent translations appear side by side with the Nahuatl transcriptions and, when coupled with her extensive footnotes, provide full disclosure of the translation process. Those interested in the colonial society of Central Mexico, Nahuatl, and/or the indigenous peoples of colonial Latin America will benefit from this work." - Mark Z. Christensen, Journal of Latin American Studies "The transcriptions and translations, displayed with the Nahuatl and English on facing pages, are models of clarity, wonderfully nuanced and rendered in idiomatic English that nonetheless remains remarkably faithful to the originals. Townsend's extensive "This is a simply a superb book. From the design of its cover to the quality of the introductory essays, the facing-page transcriptions and translations of the Nahuatl documents, and the detailed page footnotes, it represents a model of historical scholar
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