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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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 302.209
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781550029086 9781550026627
- LCCN
- P90
- LCCN Item number
- I5 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (287 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00602117 (OCoLC)605708272 (CaOOCEL)410782
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- V O Y A G E U R C L A S S I C S 1
- EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS 1
- V O Y A G E U R C L A S S I C S 2
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- V O Y A G E U R C L A S S I C S 4
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- CONTENTS 8
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- PUBLISHERS NOTE 10
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION 12
- PREFACE 20
- 1 INTRODUCTION 22
- 2 EGYPT 33
- 3 BABYLONIA 47
- 4 THE ORAL TRADITION AND GREEK CIVILIZATION 76
- 5 THE WRITTEN TRADITION AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE 107
- 6 PARCHMENT AND PAPER 139
- 7 PAPER AND THE PRINTING PRESS 165
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- NOTES 200
- MARGINALIA 221
- SUGGESTED READING 271
- INDEX 275
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- V O Y A G E U R C L A S S I C S 290
- EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS 290
