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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... economic history pursued exhausting “dirt” research across the breadth of Canada.They mined the archives, but they also travelled to all corners of the country talking to everyone along the way — from industry leaders to ordinary folk ...
... economic history pursued exhausting “dirt” research across the breadth of Canada.They mined the archives, but they also travelled to all corners of the country talking to everyone along the way — from industry leaders to ordinary folk ...
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... Economy, University of Toronto, but simply as “Innis of Canada.” Not one of his economic history colleagues accompanied him on his intellectualjourney into the distant past. Indeed, they were of the opinion that he had gone seriously ...
... Economy, University of Toronto, but simply as “Innis of Canada.” Not one of his economic history colleagues accompanied him on his intellectualjourney into the distant past. Indeed, they were of the opinion that he had gone seriously ...
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... economic history and politics.There was very little intellectual or personal chem- istry between the two men. Innis did put McLuhan's first book, The Mechanical Bride, on the reading list for his graduate students. However, a personal ...
... economic history and politics.There was very little intellectual or personal chem- istry between the two men. Innis did put McLuhan's first book, The Mechanical Bride, on the reading list for his graduate students. However, a personal ...
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... economic history. I am grateful to him for his consistent encouragement.To his name I must add those of Professor ... economy. No one can be oblivious to the work of Kroeber, Mead, Marx, Mosca, Pareto, Sorokin, Spengler, Toynbee,Veblen ...
... economic history. I am grateful to him for his consistent encouragement.To his name I must add those of Professor ... economy. No one can be oblivious to the work of Kroeber, Mead, Marx, Mosca, Pareto, Sorokin, Spengler, Toynbee,Veblen ...
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... economic history it is clear that in our civilization we are concerned not only with civilizations but also with empires and that we have been seized with the role of economic considerations in the suc- cess or failure of empires ...
... economic history it is clear that in our civilization we are concerned not only with civilizations but also with empires and that we have been seized with the role of economic considerations in the suc- cess or failure of empires ...
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9 | |
32 | |
46 | |
The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Parchment and Paper | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
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