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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... Sumerians, and enormously reduced the number of signs needed for the phonetic representation of the word.21 But their language exhibited a distinction between consonants expressing the notion or conception of a root and vowels marking ...
... Sumerians, and enormously reduced the number of signs needed for the phonetic representation of the word.21 But their language exhibited a distinction between consonants expressing the notion or conception of a root and vowels marking ...
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... Sumer was a land of small city-states in which the chief priest of the temple was the direct representative of the god ... Sumerian and later civilizations, but they may reflect a bias incidental to the character of the material used for ...
... Sumer was a land of small city-states in which the chief priest of the temple was the direct representative of the god ... Sumerian and later civilizations, but they may reflect a bias incidental to the character of the material used for ...
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... Sumerian had no distinctions of gender, and often omitted those of number, persons, and tenses.An idea had not fully developed to the symbol of a word or syllable. Pictographs and ideograms took on abstract phonetic values, and the ...
... Sumerian had no distinctions of gender, and often omitted those of number, persons, and tenses.An idea had not fully developed to the symbol of a word or syllable. Pictographs and ideograms took on abstract phonetic values, and the ...
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... Sumerians had used archers effectively and had introduced chariots drawn by four asses, but the Akkadians succeeded ... Sumerian opposition finally succeeded and the third dynasty was founded by Ur-Nammu about 2474 BC.The power of city ...
... Sumerians had used archers effectively and had introduced chariots drawn by four asses, but the Akkadians succeeded ... Sumerian opposition finally succeeded and the third dynasty was founded by Ur-Nammu about 2474 BC.The power of city ...
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... Sumerian civilization and the Sumer-Akkadian empire were destroyed by the savagery of the Elamites about 2187 bc.The Amorite Sumer-Abum had himself proclaimed king of Babylon about 2125 BC and by 2007 BC the dynasty controlled a large ...
... Sumerian civilization and the Sumer-Akkadian empire were destroyed by the savagery of the Elamites about 2187 bc.The Amorite Sumer-Abum had himself proclaimed king of Babylon about 2125 BC and by 2007 BC the dynasty controlled a large ...
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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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