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Clarence Henry Haring

1885–1960

A pioneering American historian of Latin America, he helped establish the field in the United States and wrote influential studies of Spain’s colonial world in the Americas. His work is still noted for bringing colonial institutions and transatlantic history into clearer focus for English-speaking readers.

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The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

by Clarence Henry Haring

About the author

Born in Philadelphia on February 9, 1885, Clarence Henry Haring became one of the early American scholars to devote sustained attention to Latin American history. He is widely described as a pioneer in the study of Latin American colonial institutions, helping give the subject a firmer place in U.S. historical scholarship.

Haring is especially associated with major works on Spain’s empire in the Americas, including The Spanish Empire in America. His writing focused on the structure and development of colonial rule, and it helped generations of readers and students understand how Spain governed its American territories.

He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1960. While a suitable confirmed portrait image was not available from the sources retrieved here, his reputation as an important early historian of Latin America is well established.