The Bishop's Utopia : : Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru / / Emily Berquist Soule.
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, bot...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Early Modern Americas
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 24 color, 1 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Utopias in the New World
- Chapter 1. Th e Books of a Bishop
- Chapter 2. Parish Priests and Useful Information
- Chapter 3. Imagining Towns in Trujillo
- Chapter 4. Improvement Th rough Education
- Chapter 5. The Hualgayoc Silver Mine
- Chapter 6. Local Botany: The Products of Utopia
- Chapter 7. The Legacy of Martínez Compañón
- Conclusion. Martínez Compañón's Native Utopia
- Afterword
- Sources and Methods
- Appendix 1. Ecclesiastical Questionnaire Sent to Priests Prior to the Visita Party's Arrival
- Appendix 2. Natural History Questionnaire Sent to Priests Prior to the Visita Party's Arrival
- Archives and Special Collections Consulted
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments