| Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 Contributor(s): Caņizares-Esguerra, Jorge (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804742790 ISBN-13: 9780804742795 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: In this remarkable work in Atlantic history, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra demonstrates with lavish scholarship and visual imagery the European settlers' struggle with Satanic forces that permeated the colonization and settlement of Europeans, both Hispanic and British, in the Western Hemisphere. He explores the epical narratives written in Spanish, Latin, and English, of that deeply embedded struggle, and shows how Christians in America thereafter fought to preserve a spiritual "garden" free of demonic forces. The struggle he describes in this original and challenging book, experienced by Christians of the time as heroic and inescapable, was an essential part of Atlantic history in the years of its early development.--Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University "Recent scholarship on early modern Europe has shown how, contrary to the sharp contrasts of historical folklore, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations dreamed comparable dreams, and promoted comparable forms of political, economic, and social development. Now Professor Canizares-Esguerra completes the picture for the Americas of roughly the same era; in a book notable for skillful deployment of a rich visual material, he shows how Spanish and Puritan clerics, at opposite ends of a mutual anathema, dreamed comparable dreams, and shared common fears of an advancing kingdom of the devil."--James Tracy, University of Minnesota |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 970.01 |
| LCCN: 2006005162 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.38" W x 9.04" (1.28 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
