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Puritan conquistadors : iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700

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.
Print Book, English, 2006
Stanford University Press, Stanford (California), 2006
Historia
XIV, 327 p. il. 24 cm
9780804742801, 9780804742795, 0804742790, 0804742804
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The satanic epic. The Iberian satanic epic
The satanic epic in the Catholic Atlantic
The Elizabethan satanic epic
The Puritan satanic epic in America
The Spanish conquest as hell
Our "Elizabethan" Lady of Guadalupe
Iberian traditions in Milton's Paradise Lost
Conclusions