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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... spread of political influence. Universal gods emerged in certain centres, their influence was extended by theologians, and diffusion of worship supported the growth of kingdoms.The calendar became a source of royal authority. Detachment ...
... spread of political influence. Universal gods emerged in certain centres, their influence was extended by theologians, and diffusion of worship supported the growth of kingdoms.The calendar became a source of royal authority. Detachment ...
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... spread of writing after the democratic revolution was accompanied by the emergence of new religions in the immortality cult of Horus and Osiris. Ra worship had become too purely political and individuals found a final meaning and a ...
... spread of writing after the democratic revolution was accompanied by the emergence of new religions in the immortality cult of Horus and Osiris. Ra worship had become too purely political and individuals found a final meaning and a ...
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... spread of magical writings among the people.k Short cuts of magic and religion were entrenched in writing as the occupation of a respectable learned profession in the ruling class. Attempts of kings to escape were defeated by the power ...
... spread of magical writings among the people.k Short cuts of magic and religion were entrenched in writing as the occupation of a respectable learned profession in the ruling class. Attempts of kings to escape were defeated by the power ...
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... spread far beyond Mesopotamia and dominates the currency of Great Britain to the present day. Its superiority over the decimal system followed its ease in the handling of fractions.The royal or king's weight was adopted by royal ...
... spread far beyond Mesopotamia and dominates the currency of Great Britain to the present day. Its superiority over the decimal system followed its ease in the handling of fractions.The royal or king's weight was adopted by royal ...
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... spread to Asia Minor in the ninth century. These importations probably strengthened the tendencies in the period of comparative peace and expansion of trade in north Syria in the twelfth and eleventh centuries in which the relieved ...
... spread to Asia Minor in the ninth century. These importations probably strengthened the tendencies in the period of comparative peace and expansion of trade in north Syria in the twelfth and eleventh centuries in which the relieved ...
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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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