Emily Berquist Soule
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Professor of history at the California State University, Long Beach
Publications
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The Bishop’s Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru (The Early Modern Americas)
Based on intensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Colombia and the unique visual data of more than a thousand extraordinary watercolors, The Bishop’s Utopia recreates the intellectual, cultural, and political universe of the Spanish Atlantic world in the late 18th century.