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
 collapse section4—  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
 collapse section5—  León's Rebellion
 •Rebellion
 •Royal Reaction
 •Repression
 •Postscript
 collapse section6—  The Protest of the Caracas Elite
 •The Company and Cacao Commerce
 •The Mantuanos' Protest
 •Who Signed
 collapse sectionWhy 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
 collapse section7—  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

 collapse sectionNotes
 •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
 collapse sectionAPPENDIX I
 •Group One
 •Group Two
 •Group Three
 •Group Four
 •Group Five
 •Group Six
 collapse sectionGLOSSARY
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 collapse sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 •Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography
 collapse sectionINDEX
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