| 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 |
| PART II— THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY |
| 4— The Tuy Valley Frontier |
| 5— León's Rebellion |
| 6— The Protest of the Caracas Elite |
| • | The Company and Cacao Commerce |
| • | The Mantuanos' Protest |
| • | Who Signed |
| Why They Signed |
| • | 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 |
| • | 8— The King in Caracas: The Bourbon Reforms |
| Notes |
| APPENDIX A |
| APPENDIX B |
| APPENDIX C |
| APPENDIX D |
| APPENDIX E |
| APPENDIX F |
| APPENDIX G |
| APPENDIX H |
| APPENDIX I |
| GLOSSARY |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| INDEX |