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The bishop's utopia : envisioning improvement in colonial Peru
- Title
- The bishop's utopia : envisioning improvement in colonial Peru / Emily Berquist Soule.
- Author
- Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975-
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.
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- Description
- 287 p. : col. ill., col maps; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- The early modern Americas
- Uniform Title
- Early modern Americas.
- Subject
- Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, 1735-1797
- Indians of South America > Material culture > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
- 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
- Utopias > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad) > History > 18th century
- Natural history > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
- Material culture in art
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Utopias in the New World -- The books of a bishop -- Parish priests and useful information -- Imagining towns in Trujillo -- Improvement through education -- The Hualgayoc silver mine -- Local botany: the products of utopia -- The legacy of Martínez Compañón -- Martínez Compañón's native utopia.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-3250
- ISBN
- 9780812245912 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0812245911 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013035999
- 40023526067
- OCLC
- 858749408
- Author
- Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975-
- Title
- The bishop's utopia : envisioning improvement in colonial Peru / Emily Berquist Soule.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.
- Series
- The early modern AmericasEarly modern Americas.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023526067
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-3250