Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico

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Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico Get access Camilla Townsend Camilla Townsend Camilla Townsend is an associate professor of history at Colgate University. She is a comparativist, whose book Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (Austin, Tex., 2000) explores contrasting colonial legacies in the Chesapeake and the Andean region. Recently, she has concluded that New Spain is crucial to comparative colonial studies and has made the study of Nahuatl her focus. Her book Malintzin: the Woman Who Went with Cortés is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press, and a study of “The Chalcan Woman's Song” in the Canares mexicanos is in process. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 3, June 2003, Pages 659–687, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.3.659 Published: 01 June 2003