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Author Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975- author.

Title The bishop's utopia : envisioning improvement in colonial Peru / Emily Berquist Soule
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (316 pages) : maps (some color)
Series The early modern Americas
Early modern Americas.
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
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
Analysis American History
American Studies
Caribbean Studies
Latin American Studies
Notes Electronic version available
Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, 1735-1797.
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, 1735-1797. Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII.
SUBJECT Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, 1735-1797. Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, 1735-1797
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, 1735-1797 fast
Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII (Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime) fast
Subject 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.
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany
Indians of South America -- Material culture
Indians of South America -- Social conditions
Material culture in art
Natural history
Social planning
Utopias
Peru -- Trujillo (La Libertad)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812209433
0812209435