| The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| INTRODUCTION |
 | PART I— THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY |
| • | 1— Commerce and Conflict: The First Caracas Elite, 1567–1620 |
| • | 2— Cacao in the Seventeenth Century: The First Boom |
| 3— Wheat Farm and Cacao Hacienda: Agricultural Business and Elite Families |
| • | The Rodríguez Santos Wheat Estancia and Mill |
| • | The Liendo Cacao Hacienda |
| PART II— THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY |
| 4— The Tuy Valley Frontier |
| • | Conflict over Settlement: The Case of Curiepe |
| • | Tuy Cacao Haciendas and the Slave Trade |
| • | The Caldera-Piñate Haciendas: A Case Study |
| • | The Closing of the Tuy Frontier |
| 5— León's Rebellion |
| • | Rebellion |
| • | Royal Reaction |
| • | Repression |
| • | Postscript |
| 6— The Protest of the Caracas Elite |
| • | The Company and Cacao Commerce |
| • | The Mantuanos' Protest |
| • | Who Signed |
| Why They Signed |
| • | Deeper Roots? |
| • | A Basque Connection? |
| • | Political Activists? |
| • | Debt with the Company? |
| • | Sugar Trapiche Ownership? |
| • | Profits and Protest: The Fortunes of Three Mantuano Families |
| • | From Blanco Ochoa to Blanco Uribe |
| • | From Bolívar Martínez to Bolívar Aguirre |
| • | From Palacios Gedler to Palacios Lovera |
| • | Company Debts and Sugar Income |
| 7— First Families |
| • | Residence and Marriage Patterns of the Caracas Elite |
| • | Patterns of Elite Residence in 1759 |
| • | Patterns of Elite Marriage |
| • | Midcentury: A Critical Conjuncture for Some Mantuano Families |
| • | 8— The King in Caracas: The Bourbon Reforms |
| Notes |
| • | INTRODUCTION |
| • | 1— Commerce and Conflict: The First Caracas Elite, 1567–1620 |
| • | 2— Cacao in the Seventeenth Century: The First Boom |
| • | 3— Wheat Farm and Cacao Hacienda: Agricultural Business and Elite Families |
| • | 4— The Tuy Valley Frontier |
| • | 5— León's Rebellion |
| • | 6— The Protest of the Caracas Elite |
| • | 7— First Families |
| • | 8— The King in Caracas: The Bourbon Reforms |
| APPENDIX A |
| APPENDIX B |
| APPENDIX C |
| APPENDIX D |
| APPENDIX E |
| APPENDIX F |
| APPENDIX G |
| APPENDIX H |
| APPENDIX I |
| • | Group One |
| • | Group Two |
| • | Group Three |
| • | Group Four |
| • | Group Five |
| • | Group Six |
| GLOSSARY |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| • | Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography |
| INDEX |
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