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 zoologica...

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Main Author: Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2014.
Series:Early modern Americas.
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Summary:"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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0812209435
9780812209433
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.