Puritan Conquistadors Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 |
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| Author:
| Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-4280-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2006 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.