Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700

By Jorge Cañizares Esguerra and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804742804
• ISBN13: 9780804742801
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"