
Lloyd-Jones and Lewis explain and illustrate the possible uses of the computer for the historian. Using practical workshop sessions, basic skill and knowledge development exercises and theory, this will be an important tool for the historian.

Designed to introduce students to historical computing through practical workshop exercise, this text uses examples, such as the performance of the American and German economies in the 1930s, the working-class pattern of 19th-century emigration and the cotton industry, to illustrate...

