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David T. Read AM'79, PhD'87, Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World (Wayne State University Press). Read examines Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene within the context of England's international relations and colonial expansion during the Elizabethan period. This book responds to the recent wave of work emphasizing Spenser's tenure in Ireland, furthering the argument that the 16th-century writer's primary interests lay in English colonialism.