{"product_id":"the-bishops-utopia-envisioning-improvement-in-colonial-peru-hardback-9780812245912","title":"The Bishop's Utopia; Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru (Hardback) 9780812245912","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Bishop's Utopia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEnvisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmily Berquist Soule (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812245912\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 April 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 24 color, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.67 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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) \"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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e Based on intensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Colombia and the unique visual data of more than a thousand extraordinary watercolors, \u003ci\u003eThe Bishop's Utopi\u003c\/i\u003ea recreates the intellectual, cultural, and political universe of the Spanish Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century. Emily Berquist Soule recounts the reform agenda of MartÍnez CompaÑÓn-including the construction of new towns, improvement of the mining industry, and promotion of indigenous education-and positions it within broader imperial debates; unlike many of his Enlightenment contemporaries, who elevated fellow Europeans above native peoples, MartÍnez CompaÑÓn saw Peruvian Indians as intelligent, productive subjects of the Spanish Crown. \u003ci\u003eThe Bishop's Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e seamlessly weaves cultural history, natural history, colonial politics, and art into a cinematic retelling of the Bishop's life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Utopias in the New World\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Books of a Bishop\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Parish Priests and Useful Information\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Imagining Towns in Trujillo\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Improvement Through Education\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Hualgayoc Silver Mine\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Local Botany: The Products of Utopia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Legacy of MartÍnez CompaÑÓn\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. MartÍnez CompaÑÓn's Native Utopia\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Sources and Methods\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Ecclesiastical Questionnaire Sent to Priests Prior to the \u003ci\u003eVisita\u003c\/i\u003e Party's Arrival\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Natural History Questionnaire Sent to Priests Prior to the \u003ci\u003eVisita\u003c\/i\u003e Party's Arrival\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Archives and Special Collections Consulted\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555718197528,"sku":"9780812245912","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-bishops-utopia-envisioning-improvement-in-colonial-peru-hardback-9780812245912","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}