Puritan Conquistadors

Puritan Conquistadors
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0804742804
ISBN-13 : 9780804742801
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Book Synopsis Puritan Conquistadors by : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

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.


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