Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 John Alexander The period from the 1920s

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Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 John Alexander The period from the 1920sThis 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