Download or read book The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas written by Robert J. Ferry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the book. 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 next. That success is momentarily halted in the 1730s and 1740s, and the revolt of Juan Francisco de León in 1749 is viewed as a crisis of both the colony’s elite and the smallholder, immigrant class to which León himself belonged. The response to León’s rebellion represents a major effort on the part of the Spanish crown to restructure royal authority in the colony, arguably the first of the Bourbon reforms in the American colonies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Download or read book Chronology of Venezuelan Oil written by Anibal R. Martinez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry’s historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, social and political to create a reference source for scholars, teachers, executives, professionals and technicians, as well as students of the industry.

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Latin American Economic History 1760 1960 written by William Paul McGreevey and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy 1760 1819 written by Jacques A. Barbier and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Historic Cities of the Americas 2 volumes written by David F. Marley and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare maps, prints, and photographs, this unique volume explores the dramatic history of the Americas through the birth and development of the hemisphere's great cities.

Download or read book Venezuelan Economic Development written by Robert Loring Allen and published by Greenwich, Conn. : Jai Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on economic development in Venezuela between 1935 and 1975 - gives special consideration to petroleum policy and to the role of petroleum resources in economic growth, discusses the impact of the political system of Venezuela on economic development, and covers the public sector, human resources, money supply and banking, trade, the agricultural sector, the industrial sector, etc. Bibliography pp. 259 to 267, references and statistical tables.

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Venezuela written by Tomás Straka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venezuela is the seventh largest oil producer and holder of the largest proven reserves in the world. It’s also a country full of problems, as evidenced by having the biggest inflation rates and, by some estimates the highest crime rates worldwide. Despite having an oil boom between 2004 through 2008 with income of around two billion dollars, in 2016 it suffered an immense economic contraction and probably the largest supply shortcut crisis in its history. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Venezuela contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Venezuela.

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