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 development. The worship of Aten, the solar disk, was a device for creating a united Orient. Religious monopoly of the solar disk was designed to provide a common ideal above political and commercial interests, and above ...
... imperial development. The worship of Aten, the solar disk, was a device for creating a united Orient. Religious monopoly of the solar disk was designed to provide a common ideal above political and commercial interests, and above ...
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... imperial and central administration whose officials took the oath of allegiance and met the demands of increasing complexity in state and imperial affairs.A strong imperial capital, a system of radiating communications, and the use of ...
... imperial and central administration whose officials took the oath of allegiance and met the demands of increasing complexity in state and imperial affairs.A strong imperial capital, a system of radiating communications, and the use of ...
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... imperial organization, contraction of Assyrian power as a result of encroachments from Arameans who were pushed into Assyrian territory to the left bank of the Euphrates from the fourteenth to the twelfth centuries enabled the Hittitesk ...
... imperial organization, contraction of Assyrian power as a result of encroachments from Arameans who were pushed into Assyrian territory to the left bank of the Euphrates from the fourteenth to the twelfth centuries enabled the Hittitesk ...
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... imperial organization. Administration was emphasized as a basis ofimperialism. Provinces were in existence by 1500 BC, but under Shalmaneser III provincial government was elaborated and governors were appointed to collect tribute ...
... imperial organization. Administration was emphasized as a basis ofimperialism. Provinces were in existence by 1500 BC, but under Shalmaneser III provincial government was elaborated and governors were appointed to collect tribute ...
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... religious strength of Babylon proved too powerful.To this was added the task of including the cultural and religious centre of Egypt. Flexibility was introduced in the imperial structure through the rise 60 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... religious strength of Babylon proved too powerful.To this was added the task of including the cultural and religious centre of Egypt. Flexibility was introduced in the imperial structure through the rise 60 HAROLD A. INNIS.
Inhalt
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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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