 | The Bishop''s Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru 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 A; 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. Emily Berquist Soule teaches history at California State University at Long Beach. |
