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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.

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

He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in - at age, supervised by - Klein published

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

Klein worked with his first doctoral student, Susan Socolow, on

Klein published

2003-		Editor, Cambridge Latin American Studies series of Cambridge University Press

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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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Caption=Cloud of associated subjects of Herbert S. Klein's publications according to WorldCat, c. November 2011

Books


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.
 * {{cite book |last=Luna |first=Francisco Vidal |last2=Klein |first2=Herbert S.
 * title=Brazil since 1980|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |oclc=62889122}
 * title=Brazil since 1980|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |oclc=62889122}