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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... Imperial 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 ...
... Imperial 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 ...
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... imperial history using the characteristics of media as the staples of empire. For his final decade, Innis embarked on an exhaust- ing and lonely analysis of historical empires and the mix of media that had allowed them to flourish and ...
... imperial history using the characteristics of media as the staples of empire. For his final decade, Innis embarked on an exhaust- ing and lonely analysis of historical empires and the mix of media that had allowed them to flourish and ...
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... Imperial economic history. I am grateful to him for his consistent encouragement.To his name I must add those of Professor W.K. Hancock, Sir Henry Clay, and Humphrey Sumner,Warden of All Souls College, for innumer- able kindnesses. I ...
... Imperial economic history. I am grateful to him for his consistent encouragement.To his name I must add those of Professor W.K. Hancock, Sir Henry Clay, and Humphrey Sumner,Warden of All Souls College, for innumer- able kindnesses. I ...
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... imperial 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 ...
... imperial 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 ...
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... imperial expansion, the priests became securely established in territorial property and assumed increas- ing influence. Problems of dynastic right in the royal family gave them additional power. The use of papyrus rapidly increased ...
... imperial expansion, the priests became securely established in territorial property and assumed increas- ing influence. Problems of dynastic right in the royal family gave them additional power. The use of papyrus rapidly increased ...
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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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