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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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      Fogel told a reporter: “We were able to do in five minutes, for $40, what would have taken 2,000 man days of work.” books.google.com/books?id=TUtFgWOISxMC&lpg=PA2&ots=JkRIXC4kdv&dq=fogel%20%22we%20were%20able%20to%20do%20in%20five%20minutes%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q=fogel%20%22we%20were%20able%20to%20do%20in%20five%20minutes%22&f=false
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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) -
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