num_pages: 384
description: 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.
language: English
title: Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700
titlecomplete: Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700
genres: History, Spain
ratings_count: 58
publisher: Stanford University Press