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xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-244) and index. |
| Summary |
Using Computers in History is designed to introduce students to historical computing through practical workshop exercises. Utilising topics such as the performance of the American and German economies in the 1930s, the working-class pattern of nineteenth-century emigration and the cotton industry, the authors explain and illustrate the range of computing possibilities available to the contemporary historian. Using Computers in History raises awareness of the use of the computer as an important tool for the historian, provides a practical introduction to basic computer terminology and the different software available, examines the use of spreadsheets and how to design and work with them, includes spreadsheet exercises based around a range of historical data sets, explores the use of databases and shows how to construct them, prompts students to apply the skills they have learnt to a number of examples, and offers guidelines for further study. |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction to history and computing -- Spreadsheets, graphs and the historian -- Presenting historical data with a spreadsheet -- Presentation of historical information: graphs -- The historian and data: the material conditions of the working class in Britain, 1850-1914 -- Spreadsheets and graphs: the historian and data -- Databases and the historian -- Getting started with a database -- Databases andd independent study. |
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History -- Data processing.
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History -- Data processing.
(OCoLC)fst00958249
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| Added Author |
Lloyd-Jones, Roger, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0415103118 (hbk.) |
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9780415103114 (hbk.) |
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0415103126 (pbk.) |
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9780415103121 (pbk.) |
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