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This edition of Empire and Communications enriches Harold A. Innis's examination of the relationship between communications and power structures.

This is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influences the development of consciousness and societies.

Excerpt from The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic HistoryDoctor Innis has made himself personally familiar with the fur trade territories of Canada, and has also gone to the original historical documents containing the record of the fur trade. The work is throughout a piece of original research animated by the spirit of interpretative scholarship.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

Excerpt from The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic HistoryDoctor Innis has made himself personally familiar with the fur trade territories of Canada, and has also gone to the original historical documents containing the record of the fur trade. The work is throughout a piece of original research animated by the spirit of interpretative scholarship.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

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Il ruolo decisivo dei mezzi di comunicazione nella storia dell'Occidente: è questo il tema di «Imperi e comunicazioni». Agendo sulle dimensioni fondamentali dello spazio e del tempo, i mezzi di comunicazione determinano il destino e la stabilità delle istituzioni. E nessuna istituzione ha caratterizzato l'Occidente come l'Impero, forma politica in cui Innis insegue le trasformazioni della società egizia a quella mesopotamica, dalla Grecia clas...

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis's transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Its main themes include the problem of power and peace, the ascent of specialization and mechanized forms of knowledge, and the crisis facing democracy and civilization.

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis's transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Its main themes include the problem of power and peace, the ascent of specialization and mechanized forms of knowledge, and the crisis facing democracy and civilization.

The relationship of the fisheries to the maritime greatness of Britain and to the growth of New England as an important commercial power is particularly stressed.

This classic book, Harold A. Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James W. 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 pres...

Biography of Peter Pond, Canadian explorer, one of the first Europeans to penetrate the Canadian interior.

A classic work of Canadian historical scholarship, first published in 1930. In his new introduction, A.J. Ray states that this book is argueably the most definitive economic history and geography of Canada ever produced.

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.

This classic book, Harold A. Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James W. 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 pres...

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 concep...