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Designed explicitly for the computer 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.
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Daniel I. Greenstein is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Glasgow.
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