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Herbert S. Klein
Head and shoulders portrait Herbert S. Klein, c. 2009
Born	(1936-01-06)January 6, 1936 New York City, New York, United States
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields	Social and Economic History
Institutions	University of Chicago Columbia University Stanford University

Herbert Stanford Klein is Gouveneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. specializes in the social, demographic, and economic history of Latin America. Additionally, he has taught methodology classes on Quantative Methods in Historical Research and Demographic History at United States, Latin American and European universities.

Klein's notable achievement as a historian is the depth and breadth of his work. He was made contributions to the understanding of the slave trade in the Americas, fiscal history of the Hispanic American colonies, social and economic history of Latin America, and specifically of Bolivia and Brazil (covering the colonial period, the 19th and twentieth centuries up to the present). Finally, he wrote a very very well received first demographic history of the United States.

Early life

Childhood and education

Klein was born in New York City on January 6, 1936, to Emil Klein, an accountant who had immigrated to the United States from Hungary, and Florence Klein, a seamstress.

Klein was initially schooled at Rockaway Highschool in Queens before attending Syracuse University for two years. He then transferred to the University of Chicago where he completed his BA in 1957. He proceeded to his master and worked under Stanley Elkins and obtained his degree in 1959. For doctorate he worked under J. Fred Rippy but was also exposed to the teachings of Eric Wolf in anthropology, George Blanksten in political science and

Klein was a research assistant for Worked J. Fred Rippy Influenced by Eric Wolf B.A. - University of Chicago, 1957 M.A. - University of Chicago, 1959 Ph.D. - University of Chicago, 1963

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Professional career

Klein remained in the University of Chicago after he obtained his doctorate and was mostly dedicated to undergraduate teaching. While at Chicago he published his masters thesis and converted his doctoral dissertation into was to be his sole work of political history. He transferred to the Columbia University in where he succeeded His main challenge was to develop the

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As a historian, Klein is considered by his students and colleagues as a brilliant researcher and engaging teacher, t As of November 2011, Klein had 112 works in 318 publications in 6 languages and 14,634 library holdings registered in WorldCat.

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Works

Books

• Klein, Herbert S. (1967). Slavery in the Americas; a comparative study of Virginia and Cuba. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. OCLC 256432.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1968). Origenes de la revolución nacional boliviana : la crisis de la generación del Chaco. La Paz: Libreria y Editorial "Juventud". OCLC 1484274.
• Klein, Herbert. S. (1969). Parties and political change in Bolivia, 1880-1952. London: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 109449.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1978). The middle passage : comparative studies in Atlantic slave trade. Princeton (N.J.): Princeton University Press. OCLC 604013788.
• Kelley, Jonathan; Klein, Herbert S. (1981). Revolution and the rebirth of inequality : a theory applied to the National revolution in Bolivia. Berkely: University of California Press. OCLC 6943095.
• TePaske, John J.; Klein, Herbert S.; Brown, Kendall W. (1982). The royal treasuries of the Spanish Empire in America. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. OCLC 498459949.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1982). Bolivia: the evolution of multi-ethnic society. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. OCLC 318321264.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1982). Historia general de Bolivia. La Paz: Libreria y Editorial "Juventud". OCLC 0188148.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1986). African slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. OCLC 12973367.
• Lisbao Bacha, Edmar; Klein, Herbert S. (1989). Social change in Brazil, 1945-1985: the incomplete transition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. OCLC 18191233.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1991). Bolívia. do período pré-incaico à independência. Sao Paolo: Editora Brasiliense.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1993). Haciendas and ayllus: rural society in the Bolivian Andes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press. OCLC 469991140.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1996). La emigracion espaniola al Brasil, siglos XIX y XX. Colombres, Asturias, Spain: Fundacion Indiana.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1998). The American finances of the Spanish empire: royal income and expenditures in colonial Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. OCLC 37392913.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1996). La inmigración española al Brasil, siglos XIX y XX. Asturias, Spain: Fundacion Indiana. p. 163.
• Klein, Herbert S. (1999). The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

15. (with David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, and David Richardson), The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 1562-1867: A Database. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. This is a CD which contains the most complete extant international data on the slave trade ships and their African slave immigrants.

16. (with Francisco Vidal Luna), Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003, 273pp.

• Klein, Herbert S. (2004). A Population History of the United States. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Vinson III, Ben; Klein, Herbert S. (2007). African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Haber, Stephen; Maurer, Noel; Middlebrook, Kevin; Klein, Herbert S. (2008). Mexico since 1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Luna, Francisco Vidal; Nero da Costa; Klein, Herbert S. (2009). Escravismo em São Paulo e Minas Gerais. São Paulo: EDUSP [Editora da Universidade de São Paulo] & Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo.
• Luna, Francisco Vidal; Klein, Herbert S. (2009). Slavery in Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Klein, Herbert S.; Bergard, Laird (2010). Hispanics in the United States, 1980-2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Selected articles

• Klein, Herbert S. (1981). "Revolutionary Wars and Public Finances: The Madrid Treasury, 1784-1807". Journal of Economic History. XLI (2): 315–339. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (1983). "The Integration of Italian Immigrants into Argentina and the United States: A Comparative Perspective". American Historical Review. 88 (2): 306–329. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (1983). "Nineteenth Century Cuban Slave Prices in Comparative Perspective". American Historical Review. 88 (4): 1201–1218. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (1985). "Las prioridades de un monarca ilustrado: el gasto público bajo el reinado de Carlos III, 1760-1785,". Revista de Historia Económica. III (3): 473–495. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (1990). "The Supply of Mules to Central Brazil: The Sorocaba Market, 1825-1880". Agricultural History. 64 (4): 1–25. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (1992). "The Social and Economic Integration of Spanish Immigrants in 19th & 20th Century Brazil". Journal of Social History. 25 (3): 505–530. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (1996). "The Demographic Structure of Mexico City in 1811". Journal of Urban History. 23 (1): 66–93. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (1996). "Prices as a Tool of Historical Analysis". América Latina en la Historia Económica, Boletín de Fuentes (Mexico). 5: 9–18. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (2010). "La emigración de los Latinoamericanos a España y los Estados Unidos, Un estudio comparativo". Historia y Política (Madrid). 22: 15–53. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Klein, Herbert S. (2006). "The Old Social History and the New Social Sciences". Journal of Social History. 39 (3): 936–944. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

• Prado, Gustavo (1993). "'El mundo intelectual boliviano no regreso a la inocencia y falta de sofisticacion de 1959'. Entrevista a Herbert S. Klein". DATA Revista del Intsituto de Estudios Andinos y Amazonicos. 4 (2). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

External links

• Columbia University History Departament
• Stanford University History Department
• Works by or about MEContreras/Herbert S.Klein in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Category: 1936 births Category:Living people Category:American Jews Category:Historians of Latin America Category:Latin Americanists Category:American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Category:University of Chicago faculty Category:Columbia University faculty Category:People from New York City Category:Stanford University faculty