Historian's Guide to Computing

Designed explicitly for the cpmputer non-literate, this comprehensive guide for historians and other scholars offers clear advice on using the computer for information management and research. The author gives information on electronic mail, on-line data services, and bibliographies, and discusses database management, statistics, graphs, and text analysis, using real historical problems and data sets. He provides numerous signposts to readers in search of help with specific techniques and software.

Review: "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

"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

"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