Empire and CommunicationsIt'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 influenced the development of consciousness and societies. In this foundational work, 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. With a new introduction by Alexander John Watson, author of Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis, and a new foreword by series editor Andrew Calabrese, this previously hard-to-obtain book is now readily available again. All communication scholars should have this classic book on their shelves, and it also serves as a great supplementary text in communication and economics courses. |
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... alphabet and abandoned the remainder of the complicated system . In any case , Semitic peo- ples in contact with Egyptians at some time before 1500 BC apparently invented an alphabet which was developed in Palestine and perfected on the ...
... alphabet and abandoned the remainder of the complicated system . In any case , Semitic peo- ples in contact with Egyptians at some time before 1500 BC apparently invented an alphabet which was developed in Palestine and perfected on the ...
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... alphabet and its adaptability to languages provided a temporary means of escape in facilitating , on the one hand , the expansion and development of empires by the Assyrians and the Persians and the growth of trade under the Arameans ...
... alphabet and its adaptability to languages provided a temporary means of escape in facilitating , on the one hand , the expansion and development of empires by the Assyrians and the Persians and the growth of trade under the Arameans ...
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... Alphabet (London, 1912), 17—19. "A gradually formed signary, spread by traffimc far and wide, was slowly contracted and systematized until it was reduced to a fixed alphabet." Signs, "by the systematic arrangement of some of them ...
... Alphabet (London, 1912), 17—19. "A gradually formed signary, spread by traffimc far and wide, was slowly contracted and systematized until it was reduced to a fixed alphabet." Signs, "by the systematic arrangement of some of them ...
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