The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART I—  THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
 1—  Commerce and Conflict: The First Caracas Elite, 1567–1620
 2—  Cacao in the Seventeenth Century: The First Boom
 collapse section3—  Wheat Farm and Cacao Hacienda: Agricultural Business and Elite Families
 The Rodríguez Santos Wheat Estancia and Mill
 The Liendo Cacao Hacienda

 collapse sectionPART II—  THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
 expand section4—  The Tuy Valley Frontier
 expand section5—  León's Rebellion
 expand section6—  The Protest of the Caracas Elite
 expand section7—  First Families
 8—  The King in Caracas: The Bourbon Reforms

 expand sectionNotes
  APPENDIX A
  APPENDIX B
  APPENDIX C
  APPENDIX D
  APPENDIX E
  APPENDIX F
  APPENDIX G
  APPENDIX H
 expand sectionAPPENDIX I
 expand sectionGLOSSARY
 expand sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX

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