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Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9781503619654
DOI
10.1515/9781503619654
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22593937 bytes)
Pages
344\344
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 21:40:03

Description

This book argues that the striking resemblances in Spanish and Puritan discourses of colonization as "exorcism" and as spiritual gardening point to a common Atlantic history. These resemblances suggest that we are better off if we simply consider the Puritan colonization of New England as a continuation of Iberian models rather than a radically different colonizing experience. The book demonstrates that a wider Pan-American perspective can upset the most cherished national narratives of the United States, for it maintains that the Puritan colonization of New England was as much a chivalric, crusading act of Reconquista (against the Devil) as was the Spanish conquest.

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