Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700

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.

Author: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/03/2006
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.04w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780804742801

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 66

About the Author
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of the award winning How to Write the History of the New World (Stanford University Press, 20