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Empire and Communications

By: Harold A. Innis

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Originally published in 1950, Harold A. Innis’s Empire and Communications is considered to be one of the classic works in media studies, yet its origins have received little attention. Ambitious in its scope, the book spans five millennia, tracing a path of development around the globe from 2900 BCE to the twentieth century and revealing the cyclical interplay between communications and power structures across space and time. In this new edition, William J. Buxton pays close attention to handwritten glosses that Innis added to a copy of the original edition and the revisions undertaken by his widow, Mary Q. Innis. A new introduction provides a detailed account of how the book emerged from lectures that Innis delivered at Oxford University in 1948, as well as how it related to other presentations Innis made in Britain during the same period. It explores how Innis sought to enrich his analysis by incorporating material related to phenomena such as war, education, religion, culture, geography, and finance. An insightful foreword by Marshall McLuhan is included, as well as bibliographical references and a revised index. By providing a narrative based on extensive notes from Innis, this edition makes Empire and Communications more accessible and contributes to the broad efforts to shape Innis’s legacy.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487512090

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Changing Concepts of Time

By: Harold A. Innis

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Changing Concepts of Time

By: Harold A. Innis

This classic book, Harold Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James Carey. An elaboration of Innis's earlier theories, Changing Concepts of Time looks at then-new technological changes in communication and considers the different ways in which space and time are perceived. Innis explores military implications of the U.S. constitution, freedom of the press, communication monopolies, culture, and press support of presidential candidates, among other interesting and diverse topics.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742572870

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The Bias of Communication

By: Harold Adams Innis

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The Bias of Communication

By: Harold Adams Innis

First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control over its development.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802096069

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Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change

Selected Essays

By: Harold Adams Innis

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Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change

Selected Essays

By: Harold Adams Innis

This new edition of Harold Innis's essays, published on the occasion of his centenary, assembles his most significant and representative writing. Included are many of Innis's essays on cultural issues and economic development - subjects he explored throughout his life - that have not been readily accessible before.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773512993

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9780773512993

Political Economy in the Modern State

By: Harold A. Innis

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Political Economy in the Modern State

By: Harold A. Innis

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis's transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Completed in 1946, it is a collection of fifteen chapters plus a remarkable Preface selected and crafted to address four main themes: the problem of power and peace in the post-War era; the ascent of specialized and mechanized forms of knowledge involving, most particularly, the media, the state, and the academy; the crisis facing civilization and, more generally, the modern penchant for unreflexive short-term thinking in the face of mounting contradictions; and Innis's growing focus on what would be called media bias. In this new edition, editors Robert E. Babe and Edward A. Comor provide not only a general introduction to Innis's largely forgotten book but also dedicated introductions to each of its fifteen chapters and a comprehensive index. Together, Babe and Comor demonstrate how Innis's volume reflects a shift in Innis's focus, away from analytical relativism towards, instead, a reflexive search for objective truths.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487522924

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Empire and Communications

By: Harold Adams Innis,Mary Quayle Innis

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Empire and Communications

By: Harold Adams Innis,Mary Quayle Innis

Egypt - Babylonia - The oral tradition and the roman empire - Parchment and paper - Paper and the printing press.

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0802061192

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Political Economy in the Modern State

By: Harold A. Innis

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Political Economy in the Modern State

By: Harold A. Innis

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis’s transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Completed in 1946, it is a collection of fifteen chapters plus a remarkable Preface selected and crafted to address four main themes: the problem of power and peace in the post-War era; the ascent of specialized and mechanized forms of knowledge involving, most particularly, the media, the state, and the academy; the crisis facing civilization and, more generally, the modern penchant for unreflexive short-term thinking in the face of mounting contradictions; and Innis’s growing focus on what would be called media bias. In this new edition, editors Robert E. Babe and Edward A. Comor provide not only a general introduction to Innis’s largely forgotten book but also dedicated introductions to each of its fifteen chapters and a comprehensive index. Together, Babe and Comor demonstrate how Innis’s volume reflects a shift in Innis’s focus, away from analytical relativism towards, instead, a reflexive search for objective truths.

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1487518919

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The Strategy of Culture Including the Military Implications of the American Constitution and Roman Law and the British Empire

By: Harold Adams Innis

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The Strategy of Culture Including the Military Implications of the American Constitution and Roman Law and the British Empire

By: Harold Adams Innis

Harold Innis (1894 - 1952) was a brilliant original thinker and professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. He is known for his seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. Innis's great mind exposed the role of media in shaping the culture and the development of civilizations. For instance, he argued that a balance between oral and written forms of communication enabled the flourishing of the Greek civilization in the 5th century BC. He was extremely concerned about the destructive effect of powerful, advertising-driven media, preoccupied with "present-mindedness" and the "continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity." This book features three of his essays: "The Strategy of Culture," "The Military Implications of the American Constitution" and "Roman Law and the British Empire.

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Oxford City Press

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1781390614

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The Bias of Communication

By: Harold Adams Innis

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The Bias of Communication

By: Harold Adams Innis

First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control over its development.

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Interdependent Development

By: Harold Brookfield

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Interdependent Development

By: Harold Brookfield

Rather than being a book about ‘development’ per se, this work, first published in 1975, is instead a book about ideas about development, designed for those drawn by a concern over social injustice into the development field. In a selective review of theory, which gives particular emphasis to the spatial dimension in Western, Marxist and neo-Marxist thought, Harold Brookfield traces the evolution of ideas about world inequality and the problem of development from the days before the ‘underdeveloped countries’ were considered to be a major problem, through the years dominated by ‘economic growth’, to the more searching approaches of the contemporary era. The central argument of the book is that development is a ‘totality’, which cannot properly be understood by separation into parts. The ‘developed’ and ‘underdeveloped’ countries constitute one interdependent system, and change in one cannot be understood without consideration of the other.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136856587

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First Light

By: Harold Fickett

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First Light

By: Harold Fickett

Abram White cannot escape his past -- or the message of George Whitefield.

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1556611757

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Corps Commanders of the Bulge

Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes

By: Harold R. Winton

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Corps Commanders of the Bulge

Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes

By: Harold R. Winton

If the Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last gasp, it was also America's proving ground-the largest single action fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Taking a new approach to an old story, Harold Winton widens our field of vision by showing how victory in this legendary campaign was built upon the remarkable resurrection of our truncated interwar army, an overhaul that produced the effective commanders crucial to GI success in beating back the Ardennes counteroffensive launched by Hitler's forces. Winton's is the first study of the Bulge to examine leadership at the largely neglected level of corps command. Focusing on the decisions and actions of six Army corps commanders—Leonard Gerow, Troy Middleton, Matthew Ridgway, John Millikin, Manton Eddy, and J. Lawton Collins—he recreates their role in this epic struggle through a mosaic of narratives that take the commanders from the pre-war training grounds of America to the crucible of war in the icy-cold killing fields of Belgium and Luxembourg. Winton introduces the story of each phase of the Bulge with a theater-level overview of the major decisions and events that shaped the corps battles and, for the first time, fully integrates the crucial role of airpower into our understanding of how events unfolded on the ground. Unlike most accounts of the Ardennes that chronicle only the periods of German and American initiative, Winton's study describes an intervening middle phase in which the initiative was fiercely contested by both sides and the outcome uncertain. His inclusion of the principal American and German commanders adds yet another valuable layer to this rich tapestry of narrative and analysis. Ultimately, Winton argues that the flexibility of the corps structure and the competence of the men who commanded the six American corps that fought in the Bulge contributed significantly to the ultimate victory. Chronicling the human drama of commanding large numbers of soldiers in battle, he has produced an artful blend of combat narrative, collective biography, and institutional history that contributes significantly to the broader understanding of World War II as a whole. With the recent modularization of the U.S. Army division, which makes this command echelon a re-creation of the corps of World War II, Corps Commanders of the Bulge also has distinct relevance to current issues of Army transformation.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700623841

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9780700623846

Education of a Canadian

My Life as a Scholar and Activist

By: Harold Gordon Skilling

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Education of a Canadian

My Life as a Scholar and Activist

By: Harold Gordon Skilling

This captivating memoir by one of Canada's preeminent and honoured scholars records a life devoted to understanding both the history and destiny of world communism. It also reveals a life lived at the heart of the Soviet experiment, especially as it was tried and tested in Czechoslovakia. The work is a "living history" of some of the most dramatic periods of change in our time, seen first through the eyes of an early and ardent "fellow traveller," then through the sharper lens of an academic striving to make sense of Soviet failures and gross injustices, and finally from the perspective of an experienced scholar, activist, and social critic.

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088629357X

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9780886293574

Ticonderoga Soldier Elijah Estabrooks Journal 1758-1760

A Massachusetts Provincial Soldier in the French and Indian War

By: Harold A. Skaarup

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Ticonderoga Soldier Elijah Estabrooks Journal 1758-1760

A Massachusetts Provincial Soldier in the French and Indian War

By: Harold A. Skaarup

The French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years' War), was fought between 1754 and 1763. One of the major battles in the North American campaign was fought at Fort Carillon, also known as Ticonderoga. Fort Ticonderoga had been erected by the French in New York in 1755, on a site which they believed was the key to the defense of Canada. The fort was strategically situated to provide control of both the two-mile portage and navigation northward on Lake Champlain. General Montcalm was ordered to defend it, and the British were determined to take it by force. Although the British had the superior numbers, the battle went badly for them because their commander was killed in a small skirmish with the French before the battle began. On the 8th of July 1758, the French Forces under the leadership of General Montcalm defeated a superior British force led by General Abercrombie. This is the story of Elijah Estabrooks, a Massachusetts provincial soldier who fought in that battle. Elijah kept a Journal throughout his military service, and the purpose of this book is to provide additional details on the people and places that he wrote about during this war.

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iUniverse

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0595169465

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9780595169467

Book's by Harold Innis

Empire and Communications

Empire and Communications

Changing Concepts of Time

Changing Concepts of Time

The Bias of Communication

The Bias of Communication

Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change

Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change

Political Economy in the Modern State

Political Economy in the Modern State

Empire and Communications

Empire and Communications

Political Economy in the Modern State

Political Economy in the Modern State

The Strategy of Culture Including the Military Implications of the American Constitution and Roman Law and the British Empire

The Strategy of Culture Including the Military Implications of the American Constitution and Roman Law and the British Empire

The Bias of Communication

The Bias of Communication

Interdependent Development

Interdependent Development

First Light

First Light

Corps Commanders of the Bulge

Corps Commanders of the Bulge

Education of a Canadian

Education of a Canadian

Ticonderoga Soldier Elijah Estabrooks Journal 1758-1760

Ticonderoga Soldier Elijah Estabrooks Journal 1758-1760

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