The Bishop's Utopia : Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berquist Soule, Emily (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Colección:The Early Modern Americas
Temas:
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.
Latin American.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).
American History.
American Studies.
Caribbean Studies.
Latin American Studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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