Empire and Communications

by Innis, Harold A.; Calabrese, Andrew; Watson, Alexander John

• ISBN13: 9780742555082
• ISBN10: 0742555089
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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 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.

Author Biography

Harold A. Innis served as a dean at the University of Toronto

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note	p. 9
General Introduction	p. 11
Preface	p. 19
Introduction	p. 21
Egypt	p. 32
Babylonia	p. 46
The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization	p. 75
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire	p. 106
Parchment and Paper	p. 138
Paper and the Printing Press	p. 164
Notes	p. 199
Marginalia	p. 220
Suggested Reading	p. 270
Index	p. 274
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