As computers become ever more essential in study in research, scholars and students need clear advice on how best to use them. A Historians' Guide to Computing is the one place to find that advice. Designed especially for computer non-literate readers, this handy guide covers all you need to know about computers and research: databases and information management, numbers and measurement, statistics, graphical and tabular display, document preparation, and textual analysis. From e-mail to on-line catalogs, Greenstein uses real-life examples to show how to avoid pitfalls and solve problems. Not tied to any specific software, the Guide will help users harness computers efficiently, productively, and cost-effectively for projects of any size or complexity.
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"The reader instinctively feels that they are in the hands of an expert totally on top of the subject matter, which of course is exactly the case. Maintaining an all important balance, the author rightly devotes time to discussing the shortcomings of databases as well as their use and application, something of particular importance given the extent to which databases are portrayed as the panacea to all of the historian's data problems."--ESRC Data Archive Bulletin
"This comprehensive guide has been written for historians and all academics with no prior expertise in the use of computers. It provides guidance on how to get the most out of computers and how to avoid potential pitfalls."--GEOCAL
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Daniel I. Greenstein is Lecturer in Modern History at Glasgow University. He has broad, hands-on experience both in using computers in historical research and in teaching others how to do so.
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IN the 1990s, computers have become essential items in the historian's tool-kit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Federalist Papers, New York, Fletcher John, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Scholar Glasgow, Social Science History, Norfolk Street, Oxford University, Van Dieman's Land, Glasgow University, Norfolk St Head, Norfolk St Son, Quantitative History, Norfolk St Wife, Modelling Historical Data, Fletcher Eliza, Fletcher James, Ironworker Ayr, Pearson Chi-Square, Seamstress Edinburgh, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Grocer Kilmarnock, Hepburn Mary, None Glasgow, American Society New!
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IN the 1990s, computers have become essential items in the historian's tool-kit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Federalist Papers, New York, Fletcher John, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Scholar Glasgow, Social Science History, Norfolk Street, Oxford University, Van Dieman's Land, Glasgow University, Norfolk St Head, Norfolk St Son, Quantitative History, Norfolk St Wife, Modelling Historical Data, Fletcher Eliza, Fletcher James, Ironworker Ayr, Pearson Chi-Square, Seamstress Edinburgh, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Grocer Kilmarnock, Hepburn Mary, None Glasgow, American Society New!
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- The Federalist Papers (Dodo Press) by James Madison on 14 pages
- The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton on 14 pages
- Federalist Papers by John Jay on 14 pages
- History and Computing (v. 1) by Peter Denley on 7 pages
- Social Science S/G on 4 pages
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- A Companion to Western Historical Thought (Blackwell Companions to History) by Lloyd Kramer on page 465, and Back Matter
- A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. in Back Matter
- The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800-1965 by Roy Porter on page 160
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