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Empire and Communications Paperback – June 1, 1986

by Harold A. Innis (Author), David Godfrey (Editor)

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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 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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200 pages
Language

English
Publisher

General Pub Co Ltd
Publication date

June 1, 1986
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8.5 x 0.75 x 11 inches
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0888782446
ISBN-13

978-0888782441
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Publisher

‎General Pub Co Ltd (June 1, 1986)

Language

‎English

Paperback

‎200 pages

ISBN-10

‎0888782446

ISBN-13

‎978-0888782441

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‎1.22 pounds

Dimensions

‎8.5 x 0.75 x 11 inches

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This is a book I ordered from a masters degree class and it was a difficult read in the beginning, but it got more interesting and relavent towards the middle and at the end was easier to read. I think the author is very knowledgable but the over-scholarly writing was not easy to comprehend, but that is what professors want for a textbook.

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Essential reading for all seeking clarity in a world full of noise.

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Super book.

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Brilliant and almost insane research scholarship brought into a couple hundred pages of clear prose. A book of critical importance.

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Brilliant book, a tough read but worth the effort. Stunningly prophetic about how media companies still don't get digital media and want to control information. Buy it, read it, ask (nicely at first) for a digital version to honor his life's work.

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J. Tice

provides an excellent historical basis...

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 1998

This book provides a wonderful examination of how emerging communication technologies impact the society that spawned them. Each major media advance (papyrus, parchment, paper, the printing press) causes major shifts in the social paradigms of the societies that adopt its use... definately worth the read. This edition has an afterword by Dr. David Godfrey regarding the impact of the electronic form.

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adm

Very informative on the process of communication

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2013

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Inniss's Empire and Communications is for anyone, student or layperson, who wants to understand how communication had developed over history.

A Musician in Training

I might use this book as a reference for pretty much any period of history

Reviewed in Canada on August 18, 2014

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In a way this is a history of the entire world. Innis is relentless in his recounting of facts - it's impossible to absorb everything he writes. I might use this book as a reference for pretty much any period of history. This is not really exclusively about communications - it's not like McLuhan, who decided to pursue one small part of Innis's work - it's about empire just as much, and what that means, why they fail. The work doesn't really go outside of the Western experience of history with slight dips into China and India - Innis of course acknowledges this, acknowledges his own bias. In a way it is extremely hard to express Innis's ideas in any other way than how they are expressed - he deals in very very broad pictures, sums up extremely complicated ideas in a sentence. It is one way looking at and analyzing history, not the only way, but Innis does it very effectively.

Le Ray Éric

temps et qualité

Reviewed in Canada on May 15, 2019

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très bonne

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