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 |