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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution from the Eugene M. Kayden Fund of the University of Colorado toward the publication of this book.
University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd. London, England
Copyright 1989 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ferry, Robert J. The colonial elite of early Caracas: formation and crisis. 15671767 / Robert J. Ferry. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-520-06399-6 (alk. paper) 1. Elite (Social sciences)VenezuelaCaracas History17th century. 2. Elite (Social sciences) VenezuelaCaracashistory18th century. 3. Caracas (Venezuela)CommerceHistory. I. Title. HN370.Z9E435 1989 305.5'2'09877dc19 88-29089 CIP
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To the memory of Jos Ignacio Rodrguez, who showed me the best of Venezuela To my friend Loren George Deutz And to Melvid, who is everything
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Part One The Seventeenth Century
1 Commerce and Conflict: The First Caracas Elite, 15671620
13
2 Cacao in the Seventeenth Century: The First Boom
45
3 Wheat Farm and Cacao Hacienda: Agricultural Business and Elite Families
72
Part Two The Eighteenth Century
4 The Tuy Valley Frontier
105
5 Len's Rebellion
139
6 The Protest of the Caracas Elite
177
7 First Families
216
8 The King in Caracas: The Bourbon Reforms
241
Appendixes
255
Notes
289
Glossary
325
Bibliography
329
Index
337
Page ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book has been quite a long time in the making, and over the course of the years I have received the assistance of many people and several institutions. I first went to Venezuela in 1974 with a fellowship from MUCIA, a consortium of Midwestern universities centered at Indiana University. In Venezuela I was the beneficiary of several years of financial support from the Biblioteca Nacional. More recently, the Graduate School of the University of Colorado provided funds for summer research and writing.
From the beginning, no one has provided more direction, help, and inspiration than Stuart Schwartz. John Lombardi read the manuscript several times and offered both his critical judgment and broad knowledge of colonial Venezuela. In Seville, John R. Fisher shared with me his generous company and his considerable experience in the Archivo General de Indias. At the University of Colorado, Phil Mitterling, my undergraduate thesis advisor two decades ago, has again given me the benefit of his own strong sense of effective prose. His infectious enthusiasm for the historical profession has not flagged, and I am fortunate to still be his student. I am also grateful for the no-holds-barred criticisms of several other Colorado colleagues: Fred Anderson, Steve Epstein, Gloria Main, and Ralph Mann.
I am especially grateful to Virginia Betancourt, director of the Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas. Thanks to her interest in my project, I was a research associate with the Biblioteca Nacional from 1976 to 1980. In an unusual reversal of our customary practice of receiving funds from North American agencies for study abroad, during the year 1978 the Biblioteca provided me with very generous support so that I could return to the University of Minnesota to do the computer-assisted family reconstitutions that are an essential part of this study.
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In Venezuela I benefited from the companionship and professional friendship of many people, among them Ralph and Carmen Rosa Van Roy, Steve Ellner, Aurelio Alvarez Juan, Ana Mara Rodrguez, Kathy Waldron, Susan Berglund, Mike McKinley, Rob and Polly Wright and, in particular, Judy Ewell. It is also my good fortune to have had the support, assistance, and friendship of three pillars of Venezuelan historical scholarship: Germn Carrera Damas, Pedro Grases, and Manuel Prez Vila.
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