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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Page 63
... concerned with religion . Inclusion of the poetical works of the Canaanites suggests the existence of a literary tradition at least by the fourteenth century . Myths were concerned with the mysteries of nature - death in the 63 EMPIRE ...
... concerned with religion . Inclusion of the poetical works of the Canaanites suggests the existence of a literary tradition at least by the fourteenth century . Myths were concerned with the mysteries of nature - death in the 63 EMPIRE ...
Page 88
... concerned with the stat- ic aspect of structure , arrangement , and order . The discovery of nature has been ... concern of intelligence with the practical needs of action in dealing with the object , and a belief in unseen supernatural ...
... concerned with the stat- ic aspect of structure , arrangement , and order . The discovery of nature has been ... concern of intelligence with the practical needs of action in dealing with the object , and a belief in unseen supernatural ...
Page 153
... concerned with letters rather than sounds and linguistic instruc- tion emphasized eye philology rather than ear philology.29 The position of Latin had been entrenched as a result of the conflict with the Eastern Church since ...
... concerned with letters rather than sounds and linguistic instruc- tion emphasized eye philology rather than ear philology.29 The position of Latin had been entrenched as a result of the conflict with the Eastern Church since ...
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