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The bishop's utopia :

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0812245911 (hardcover : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780812245912 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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b428070

Title Proper

The bishop's utopia :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

envisioning improvement in colonial Peru /

First Statement of Responsibility

Emily Berquist Soule

Edition Statement

[1st ed.]

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Philadelphia :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

287 p., [16] p. of plates :

Other Physical Details

ill. (chiefly col.) ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Early modern Americas

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

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"Based on intensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Colombia and the unique visual data of more than a thousand extraordinary watercolors, The Bishop's Utopia recreates the intellectual, cultural, and political universe of the Spanish Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century. Emily Berquist Soule recounts the reform agenda of Martínez Compañón--including the construction of new towns, improvement of the mining industry, and promotion of indigenous education--and positions it within broader imperial debates"--Publisher description

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"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

Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime,1735-1797

Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime,1735-1797., Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII

Indians of South America-- Ethnobotany-- Peru-- Trujillo (La Libertad)

Indians of South America-- Material culture-- Peru-- Trujillo (La Libertad)

Indians of South America-- Peru-- Trujillo (La Libertad)-- Social conditions-- 18th century

Material culture in art

Natural history-- Peru-- Trujillo (La Libertad)

Social planning-- Peru-- Trujillo (La Libertad)-- History-- 18th century

Utopias-- Peru-- Trujillo (La Libertad)-- History-- 18th century

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Edition

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Soule, Emily Berquist,1975-

Date of Transaction

20140507104229.0

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[Book]

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