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

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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 zoolog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, > 1735-1797
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, > 1735-1797.
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, > 1735-1797. > Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII.
Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII (Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime)
Utopias.
Social planning.
Natural history.
Material culture in art.
Indians of South America > Social conditions.
Indians of South America > Material culture.
Indians of South America > Ethnobotany.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Culture materielle dans l'art.
Sciences naturelles > Perou > Trujillo (La Libertad)
Utopies > Perou > Trujillo (La Libertad) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Planification sociale > Perou > Trujillo (La Libertad) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Natural history > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
Utopias > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad) > History > 18th century.
Social planning > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad) > History > 18th century.
Indians of South America > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad) > Social conditions > 18th century.
Indians of South America > Ethnobotany > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
Indians of South America > Material culture > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
History.
Electronic books.
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Descripción
Sumario:"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.
Notas:Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password.
Electronic version available.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages): maps (some color)
ISBN:9780812209433

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