Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 John Alexander Choices of Flour

Choices of Flour

this book takes profound concepts and delivers them in bite-sized chunks anyone can understand

Filled with comically overwrought childhood agonies

Once the soul reaches perfection

Lance's hackles are definitely raised by the lanky young stranger

Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 John Alexander Choices of FlourThis 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