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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Main Author: Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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