History and Communications: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, the Interpretation of History

by Graeme Patterson

Book Overview

This provocative essay uses as a starting place the work of two towering figures in Canadian intellectual history: Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Graeme Patterson questions conventional understanding of the thought of Innis and McLuhan and the relationship between their work.

Historians have generally considered communications an area distinct from (and irrelevant to) their own. Harold Innis is usually regarded as having moved from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802068103
• ISBN13: 9780802068101
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher