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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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.