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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-
Format: Book
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.

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