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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 zoolog...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.