Colonial Elite of Early Caracas : Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767, Hardcover ...

by Robert J. Ferry

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Colonial Elite of Early Caracas : Formation and Crisis, 1, Hardcover by Ferry, Robert J., ISBN 0520414128, ISBN-13 9780520414129, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Combining traditional documentary research with new analytical strategies, Robert J. Ferry creates a rich, three-dimensional picture of early Caracas. His reconstitution and interpretation of important genealogical histories provide a model for historical studies of Latin American and other societies. Ferry’s work partially eclipses previously accepted ideas about colonial Caracas. He shows how the society was dominated by a commercial-agricultural elite and demonstrates that women were responsible for arranging marriages and maintaining family lineages, that marriages among first cousins were very common, and that elite residence was matrifocal. The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas focuses on the salient features of the society and economy: agriculture, commerce, and labor. The first section treats the seventeenth-century transition from Indian encomienda labor to African slave labor. The society created by slavery and the cacao trade in the eighteenth century is the main subject of the second section of th. Throughout, Ferry leads the reader to a deeper understanding of the elite planters of Caracas, who were wheat farmers in the seventeenth century and cacao hacienda owners in the eighteenth. Ferry also explores how some families suceeded in retaining wealth and local authority from one generation to the nex

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 1567
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780520414129
• Condition: Fine

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