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The bishop's utopia : envisioning improvement in colonial Peru / Emily Berquist Soule.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975-
- Series:
- Early modern Americas
- The early modern Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, 1735-1797.
- Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime.
- Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, 1735-1797. Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII.
- Indians of South America--Material culture--Peru--Trujillo (La Libertad).
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Ethnobotany--Peru--Trujillo (La Libertad).
- Indians of South America--Peru--Trujillo (La Libertad)--Social conditions--18th century.
- Social planning--Peru--Trujillo (La Libertad)--History--18th century.
- Social planning.
- Utopias--Peru--Trujillo (La Libertad)--History--18th century.
- Utopias.
- Natural history--Peru--Trujillo (La Libertad).
- Natural history.
- Material culture in art.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Indians of South America--Ethnobotany.
- Indians of South America--Material culture.
- Peru--Trujillo (La Libertad).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps.
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "In December 1788, in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo, fifty-one-year-old Spanish Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón stood surrounded by twenty-four large wooden crates, each numbered and marked with its final destination of Madrid. The crates contained carefully preserved zoological, botanical, and mineral specimens collected from Trujillo's steamy rainforests, agricultural valleys, rocky sierra, and coastal desert. To accompany this collection, the Bishop had also commissioned from Indian artisans nine volumes of hand-painted images portraying the people, plants, and animals of Trujillo. He imagined that the collection and the watercolors not only would contribute to his quest to study the native cultures of Northern Peru but also would supply valuable information for his plans to transform Trujillo into an orderly, profitable slice of the Spanish Empire.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Books of a Bishop 19
- Chapter 2 Parish Priests and Useful Information 40
- Chapter 3 Imagining Towns in Trujillo 65
- Chapter 4 Improvement Through Education 90
- Chapter 5 The Hualgayoc Silver Mine 114
- Chapter 6 Local Botany: The Products of Utopia 146
- Chapter 7 The Legacy of Martínez Compañón 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975- Bishop's utopia.
- ISBN:
- 0812209435
- 9780812209433
- OCLC:
- 877363695
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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