PURITAN CONQUISTADORS by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra ( 9780804742795 )

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Title:

PURITAN CONQUISTADORS
IBERIANIZING THE ATLANTIC, 1550-1700

By:

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

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Hardback

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0804742790

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9780804742795

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Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

3 October, 2006

Pages:

344

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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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