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Clarence Henry Haring
1885–1960
A pioneering historian of Latin America, he helped bring the study of Spain’s American empire into U.S. universities and wrote with a clear, wide-ranging view of colonial history. His books became lasting touchstones for readers interested in trade, empire, and the making of the Americas.
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The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
by Clarence Henry Haring
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in 1885, Clarence Henry Haring studied modern languages at Harvard, then went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Under the historian Charles Harding Firth, he developed the research interests that shaped his career, including his early work on Caribbean buccaneers.
Haring taught for decades and became one of the leading American scholars of Latin American history. He is especially remembered as a pioneer in the study of colonial Spanish America and for helping establish Latin American studies as a serious academic field in the United States. Accounts published after his death in 1960 describe him as a major teacher and mentor whose influence reached far beyond his own books.
His best-known works include The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century, Trade and Navigation between Spain and the Indies in the Time of the Hapsburgs, and The Spanish Empire in America. Those books reflect the strengths that made his writing endure: careful scholarship, broad historical vision, and a talent for explaining how institutions, commerce, and empire shaped life across the Americas.