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Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700

Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700

Paperback

Colonial Period (1600-1775)General ChristianitySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0804742804
ISBN13: 9780804742801
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 3 2006
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.88
Language: English

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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Colonial Period (1600-1775)