Herbert Klein
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of History
- Member, Working Paper Editorial Board
Research
Herbert S. Klein, professor, specializes in Latin American and social history. He received his B.A. from Chicago in 1957 and his Ph.D. from Chicago in 1963. He is the author of four comparative studies of slavery, the most recent of which are African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (1986), and The Atlantic Slave Trade (1999); as well as three books of Bolivian history, the latest of which are Haciendas and Ayllus: Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the 18th and 19th Centuries (1993) and A Concise History of Bolivia (2002). He has written a book on The American Finances of the Spanish Empire, 1680-1809 (1998) and will publish in 2003 a joint book with Francisco Vidal Luna on the Economy & Society of São Paulo 1750-1850. His long-term interests are in comparative economic, social and demographic history, and he is currently working on a Population History of the United States.
Selected Work
- A Population History of the United States Klein, Herbert S. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- "Las Finanzas Reales en Rio de la Plata, 1630-1809" Klein, Herbert S. In Roberto Cortes Conde, ed. Nueva Historia de la Nacion Argentina. Academia Nacional de la Historia, 1999.
- "The Bolivian National Revolution of 1952" Klein, Herbert S. In Jack Goldstone, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions. Congressional Quarterly, 1999
- The Atlantic Slave Trade, A History and Analysis Klein, Herbert S. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- A Concise History of Bolivia Klein, Herbert S. Cambridge University Press, 2002
See Also
- Seed grant: History of the Population of the United States
- Featured publications by Herbert Klein
