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?Two Nations Over Time is a fundamentally important contribution to the history of Spanish$American relations.?-American Historical Review

?The essays show that Spain still exerts influence in the world today, and they give the reader important information about Spain's role in the world during this century. Useful bibliographical essay. Recommended for university and college libraries.?-Choice

Complementing the author's 1990 bibliography, this volume provides 2, 500 new citations, covering all significant literature published since the late 1980s. It includes all aspects of the subject--biographies, company histories, industry studies, product descriptions, sociological studies, industry directories, and traditional monographic histories--and covers all periods from the beginnings to the personal computer. New to this volume is a ch...

This dictionary offers a ready reference to the biographies of more than 160 individuals prominent in the history of data processing. It includes scientists, engineers, government officials, executives of major computer manufacturing companies, and users of data processing technology, and extends in time from antiquity through the 1980s. In an attempt to inform readers at all levels of specialization, the volume gives basic information to the ...

This work presents an overview of the history of computing, the computing industry, commercial applications and how computing operations were managed within American companies. Based on research, this book looks at the broad scope of computing from the perspective of the business historian.

?Although Cortada's three volumes are interrelated and are meant to be used together, LC has regretably classed them separately. Taken together, the volumes offer access to more than 400 entries on all aspects of data processing. They chronicle the history of those individuals and organizations that have contributed to the evolution of data processing over the past two decades, and jointly form a reference work that has no present parallel in ...

?Although Cortada's three volumes are interrelated and are meant to be used together, LC has regrettably classed them separately. Taken together, the volumes offer access to more than 400 entries on all aspects of data processing. They chronicle the history of those individuals and organizations that have contributed to the evolution of data processing over the past two decades, and jointly form a reference work that has no present parallel in...

The history of the computer, and of the industry it spawned, is the latest entrant into the field of historical studies. Scholars beginning to turn their attention to the subject of computing need James Cortada's Archives of Data Procesing History as a brief introduction to sources immediately available for investigation. Each essay provides an overview of a major government, academic, or industrial archival collection dealing with the history...

This bibliography provides a general introduction to the literature of the data processing industry, covering a broad range of technologies that stretch back to the pre-history of information processing. Grouped into nine chapters and under nearly 100 subheadings, the materials surveyed include both recent and historical publications, as well as ongoing current publications such as computer magazines. Each chapter contains a short review of hi...

?An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Data Processing contains more than 1, 400 annotated items important to the development of the field. The citations are grouped into four general areas, then subdivided by topic and publication date. ...Cortada provides readers with a useful, selective guide to important materials, especially on the precomputer era. Included are many lesser-known and foreign sources not found in more general compilat...

?This much needed work is essential for all levels of research in Spanish history and foreign relations.?-ARBA

This study aims to give insight into 19th-century Spanish diplomacy, while dealing directly with the events of other regions such as North Africa, Mexico, the United States and Great Britain. It is also designed to contribute to the subject of diplomacy in the post-Napoleonic Mediterranean world.

While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and analyze information (often in digital form) in the course of doing their jobs. This book offers a guide to the role of information in modern business, ma...

Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance industry, " he challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology. Cortada interprets reliance on computers as a development within an important segment of the American ...

This book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product.

This book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product.

A truly global look at IT deployment and use No technology in our history has spread as fast as computers and their digital technologies. In How Societies Embrace Information Technology, leading IT authority James Cortada examines how this phenomenon is shaping contemporary society, focusing on the role of corporations and governments. By revealing what history teaches about the adoption of information technologies, Cortada prepares business ...