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The bishop's utopia : envisioning improvement in colonial Peru / Emily Berquist Soule.

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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 zoologica...

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Main Author: Soule, Emily Berquist, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Series:Early modern Americas.
Subjects:
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, > 1735-1797.
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, > 1735-1797. > Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII.
Indians of South America > Material culture > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
Indians of South America > Ethnobotany > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
Indians of South America > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad) > Social conditions > 18th century.
Social planning > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad) > History > 18th century.
Utopias > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad) > History > 18th century.
Natural history > Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
Material culture in art.
Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, > 1735-1797
Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII (Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime)
Indians of South America > Ethnobotany.
Indians of South America > Material culture.
Indians of South America > Social conditions.
Natural history.
Social planning.
Utopias.
Peru > Trujillo (La Libertad)
History.

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