Empire and Communications

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Dundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten
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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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The Nile acted as a principle of order and centralization, necessitated collective
work, created solidarity, imposed organizations on the people, and cemented
them in a society. In turn the Nile was the work ofthe Sun, the supreme author of
the ...
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The characteristics of clay favoured the conventionalization of writing,
decentralization of cities, the growth of continuing organization in the temples,
and the religious control.Abstraction was furthered by the necessity of keeping
accounts and ...
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The style is a little dry, but Dr. Innis makes an interesting connection between the script, the method of writing(Hieroglyph, Cuneiform, alphabet) and the form of an Empire created in the past. A ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Inhalt

Publishers Note
9
General Introduction
11
Preface
19
Introduction
21
Egypt
32
Babylonia
46
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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Über den Autor (2007)

Alexander John Watson is the author of Marginal Man:The Dark Vision of Harold Innis and is the president and CEO of CARE Canada.

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TitelEmpire and Communications
Voyageur Classics
AutorHarold A. Innis
Mitwirkende PersonenAlexander John Watson
VerlagDundurn, 2007
ISBN1459721055, 9781459721050
Länge288 Seiten
  
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