Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. |
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... history, politics, and biography has been gathered to enrich and illuminate our understanding of a multi-faceted Canada.Through straightforward, knowledgeable, and reader-friendly introductions theVoyageur Classics series provides ...
... history, politics, and biography has been gathered to enrich and illuminate our understanding of a multi-faceted Canada.Through straightforward, knowledgeable, and reader-friendly introductions theVoyageur Classics series provides ...
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... History. I.Watson,A.John (Alexander John), 1948- II.Title. P90.I5 2006 302.209 C2006-904492-9 1 2 3 4 5 11 10 09 08 07 We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program ...
... History. I.Watson,A.John (Alexander John), 1948- II.Title. P90.I5 2006 302.209 C2006-904492-9 1 2 3 4 5 11 10 09 08 07 We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program ...
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... History at Oxford University. Empire and Communications was the written version of what he said during that lecture series. As Canada's pre-eminent scholar/statesman, he had come a long way from his background as a poor farm boy of a ...
... History at Oxford University. Empire and Communications was the written version of what he said during that lecture series. As Canada's pre-eminent scholar/statesman, he had come a long way from his background as a poor farm boy of a ...
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... history using a perspective developed by the first generation of indigenous intellectuals. He grew up in an educational system whose upper echelons were still staffed by British scholars. Their story of Canada, not surprisingly, was a ...
... history using a perspective developed by the first generation of indigenous intellectuals. He grew up in an educational system whose upper echelons were still staffed by British scholars. Their story of Canada, not surprisingly, was a ...
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... historical elements to this crisis, I will concentrate on the intellectual logic of this crossover period that eventually led to his composition of Empire and Communications. Innis and his colleagues had fixed on explaining the history ...
... historical elements to this crisis, I will concentrate on the intellectual logic of this crossover period that eventually led to his composition of Empire and Communications. Innis and his colleagues had fixed on explaining the history ...
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
Index | 274 |
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