Puritan Conquistadors
Author | : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : 0804742804 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780804742801 |
Rating | : 4/5 (801 Downloads) |
Download or read book Puritan Conquistadors written by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.