the pirate caribbean hunt jose rodriguez

Thanks to her interest in my project, I was a research associate with the Biblioteca Nacional from 1976 to 1980. I am especially grateful to Virginia Betancourt, director of the Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas. I am also grateful for the no-holds-barred criticisms of several other Colorado colleagues: Fred Anderson, Steve Epstein, Gloria Main, and Ralph Mann. His infectious enthusiasm for the historical profession has not flagged, and I am fortunate to still be his student. 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. Fisher shared with me his generous company and his considerable experience in the Archivo General de Indias. John Lombardi read the manuscript several times and offered both his critical judgment and broad knowledge of colonial Venezuela. More recently, the Graduate School of the University of Colorado provided funds for summer research and writing.įrom the beginning, no one has provided more direction, help, and inspiration than Stuart Schwartz. In Venezuela I was the beneficiary of several years of financial support from the Biblioteca Nacional. I first went to Venezuela in 1974 with a fellowship from MUCIA, a consortium of Midwestern universities centered at Indiana University. 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. Īnd to Melvid, who is everything ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1989 1989.

The pirate caribbean hunt jose rodriguez