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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... religious equality was triumphant.The masses obtained religious rights and corol- lary political rights.The Pharaohs gave up their monopoly and accepted the extension of rights to the whole population. Admission of the masses to ...
... religious equality was triumphant.The masses obtained religious rights and corol- lary political rights.The Pharaohs gave up their monopoly and accepted the extension of rights to the whole population. Admission of the masses to ...
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... social revolution between the Old and the New Kingdom was marked by a flow of eloquence and a displacement of reli- gious by secular literature. Writing had been restricted to governmental, fiscal, magical, and religious 36 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... social revolution between the Old and the New Kingdom was marked by a flow of eloquence and a displacement of reli- gious by secular literature. Writing had been restricted to governmental, fiscal, magical, and religious 36 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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... religious purposes. With increase in use of papyrus, simplification of hieroglyphic script into hieratic characters in ... religion and reflected the twofold influence of the Nile and the Sun. Night and day were joined as complementary ...
... religious purposes. With increase in use of papyrus, simplification of hieroglyphic script into hieratic characters in ... religion and reflected the twofold influence of the Nile and the Sun. Night and day were joined as complementary ...
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... religion and magic alike were sacred they became independent.The priest used prayers and offerings to the gods, whereas the magician circumvented them by force or trickery. Family worship survived in the Osirian cult, and because of a ...
... religion and magic alike were sacred they became independent.The priest used prayers and offerings to the gods, whereas the magician circumvented them by force or trickery. Family worship survived in the Osirian cult, and because of a ...
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... religious institutions imposed an enormous strain on Egyptian civilization. Egypt quickly succumbed to invasion from peoples equipped with new instruments of attack. Invaders with the sword and the bow and long-range weapons broke ...
... religious institutions imposed an enormous strain on Egyptian civilization. Egypt quickly succumbed to invasion from peoples equipped with new instruments of attack. Invaders with the sword and the bow and long-range weapons broke ...
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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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