| 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 |
| • | 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 |
| 6— The Protest of the Caracas Elite |
| 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 |