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  1. Though digital history is sometimes tied to cliometrics (esp. by critics), you don’t usually see Time on the Cross in genealogies of DH +
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      But rereading Herbert Gutman’s critique of Time on the Cross turned up a reminder of the book’s dependence on computers. +
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          David Brion Davis also mentioned how often Fogel & Engerman spoke “of their mobile SAM computers, of their electronic weaponry” +
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            “We are told that we are encircled, cut off, and cannot fight unless we have weapons-systems equal to those of the Cliometricians.” (DBD) -