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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... supported by popular feeling . The priesthood defeated an attempt to impose a single cult in which duty to the empire was the chief consideration . It has been suggested that the rise of a middle - class bureaucracy under anti ...
... supported by popular feeling . The priesthood defeated an attempt to impose a single cult in which duty to the empire was the chief consideration . It has been suggested that the rise of a middle - class bureaucracy under anti ...
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... supported censorship and accentuated the bitterness of the religious struggle between Huguenots and Catholics . " The Lyonnese printers availed them- selves of the brand of " heretic " to get the Genevan books confiscated at the ...
... supported censorship and accentuated the bitterness of the religious struggle between Huguenots and Catholics . " The Lyonnese printers availed them- selves of the brand of " heretic " to get the Genevan books confiscated at the ...
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... supported scholarship and sects . " The prolific source of Protestant sectarianism was the notion that the scriptures speak unmistakably . " " " Demands for toleration were met in part in Calvinism . Geneva was a community , the first ...
... supported scholarship and sects . " The prolific source of Protestant sectarianism was the notion that the scriptures speak unmistakably . " " " Demands for toleration were met in part in Calvinism . Geneva was a community , the first ...
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