The Bishop's Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru

Emily Berquist Soule

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

The Bishop's Utopia

Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru

Emily Berquist Soule

In the series The Early Modern Americas

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209433

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Based on intensive archival research and the unique visual data of more than a thousand extraordinary watercolors, The Bishop's Utopia seamlessly weaves cultural history, natural history, art, and imperial politics into a cinematic retelling of the life of Spanish Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón and northern Peru in the 1780s.

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Emily Berquist Soule teaches history at California State University at Long Beach.

Reviews

"A superb study of a neglected figure of the Spanish-American Catholic Enlightenment whose capacious mind and broad cultural, political, and social reforming agenda here expertly come alive. Berquist Soule casts her net widely, utilizing documentation from over a dozen archives, to reconstruct the bishop's agenda and struggles. Her work marvelously reminds readers that his utopia was disciplined by reality: competing and conflicting agendas of the locals taught the eager bishop the limits of his vision."—Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas

"Astonishingly original and highly readable. With this ground-breaking study of the monumental work of Bishop Martínez Compañón, Emily Berquist Soule opens up a whole new world of research on the eighteenth century in Peruvian history. This is cultural, intellectual, and art historical writing at the very highest level."—Gary Urton, Harvard University

"A deeply researched, beautifully written account of a fascinating man. Bishop Martínez Compañón was a brilliant iconoclast who saw the need for change and did everything he possibly could to promote it. Emily Berquist Soule's impressive archival work and fine pen brought him to life."—Charles Walker, University of California, Davis

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Utopias in the New World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Th e Books of a Bishop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. Parish Priests and Useful Information Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 3. Imagining Towns in Trujillo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 4. Improvement Th rough Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Chapter 5. The Hualgayoc Silver Mine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 6. Local Botany: The Products of Utopia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Chapter 7. The Legacy of Martínez Compañón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Conclusion. Martínez Compañón’s Native Utopia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Sources and Methods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Appendix 1. Ecclesiastical Questionnaire Sent to Priests Prior to the Visita Party’s Arrival Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Appendix 2. Natural History Questionnaire Sent to Priests Prior to the Visita Party’s Arrival Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Archives and Special Collections Consulted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 24 color, 1 b/w illus.
Keywords: American History; Latin American Studies; Caribbean Studies; American Studies

eBook

Published: March 7, 2014
ISBN: 9780812209433