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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... history using the characteristics of media as the staples of empire. For his final decade, Innis embarked on an exhausting and lonely analysis of historical empires and the mix of media that had allowed them to flourish and ultimately ...
... history using the characteristics of media as the staples of empire. For his final decade, Innis embarked on an exhausting and lonely analysis of historical empires and the mix of media that had allowed them to flourish and ultimately ...
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... history, and the classics. He was also running out of time to complete the scholarly path he had set for himself. Under these pressures, Innis developed an unusual methodology that allowed him to distil vast amounts of secondary sources ...
... history, and the classics. He was also running out of time to complete the scholarly path he had set for himself. Under these pressures, Innis developed an unusual methodology that allowed him to distil vast amounts of secondary sources ...
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... 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 innumerable kindnesses. I have been greatly ...
... 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 innumerable kindnesses. I have been greatly ...
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... 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. Recognition of ...
... 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. Recognition of ...
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... history of the British Empire, important as these are to its understanding. Nor shall I confine my interest to the British Empire as a unique phenomenon, since it is to an important extent a collection of odds and ends of other empires ...
... history of the British Empire, important as these are to its understanding. Nor shall I confine my interest to the British Empire as a unique phenomenon, since it is to an important extent a collection of odds and ends of other empires ...
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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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