Harold Adams Innis: Portrait of a Scholar

by Donald Grant Creighton

Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental contributions to Canadian economic history and the role of the means of communication in shaping history. As so often happens, his ideas were not greatly followed up, except by Marshall McLuhan, for some years after his death, but there is no growing recognition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802063292
• ISBN13: 9780802063298
• Release Date: February 1978
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher