Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700

Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700
ISBN-10
0804742804
ISBN-13
9780804742801
Category
History
Pages
327
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Author
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

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.

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