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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.
Offering fresh insight into the early life of Harold Adams Innis
(1894-1952), this volume makes available a number of previously
unpublished writings from the renowned Canadian economic historian
and media scholar. Part I, Innis's autobiographical memoir,
chronicles his farm-based family background, early education,
military service during World War I, and the beginnings of what
would become a distinguished academic career. Part II features a
selection of correspondence during his military service, revealing
both the pain and perceptions derived from that experience, and
other war-related writings. It also includes "The Returned
Soldier," a detailed piece of research and a compassionate plea to
recognize how the aftermath of the Great War would affect those who
served as well as the individuals and institutions on the home
front. Years before the term "post-traumatic stress disorder" was
coined, Innis was acutely aware of the condition and suggested ways
in which it might be treated. Other war-related items included are
Innis's first published article (dealing with the economics of the
solider) and a draft speech composed in the fall of 1918. All
original materials have been extensively annotated to provide
context for the contemporary reader and researcher.
For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis's
unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications-but
very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors
and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul
Heyer make widely accessible, for the first time, three core
chapters from the legendary Innis manuscript. Here, Innis
(1894-1952) examines the development of paper and printing from
antiquity in Asia through to 16th century Europe. He demonstrates
how the paper/printing nexus intersected with a broad range of
other phenomena, including administrative structures, geopolitics,
militarism, public opinion, aesthetics, cultural diffusion,
religion, education, reception, production processes, technology,
labor relations, and commerce, as well as the lives of visionary
figures. Buxton, Cheney, and Heyer knit the chapters into a
cohesive narrative and help readers navigate Innis's observations
by summarizing the heavily detailed factual material that peppered
the unpublished manuscript. They provide further context for
Innis's arguments by adding annotations, references, and pertinent
citations to his other writings. The end result is both a testament
to Innis's status as a canonical figure in the study of
communication and a surprisingly relevant contribution to how we
might think about the current sea change in all aspects of social,
cultural, political, and economic life stemming from the global
shift to digital communication.
Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the
"Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian
development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North
turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding
interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this
seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication
studies. This collection reveals that Innis's advocacy of the North
was closely bound up with his vision of northern Canada as the site
of a second industrial revolution based on mining, hydro-electric
power, pulp and paper, and enabled by new forms of transportation.
Long preoccupied with Canada's coming of age as a balanced and
integrated industrial nation-state, Innis grappled with the same
issues about the North in the Canadian nation that we are dealing
with today. Chapters explore the breadth of Innis's northern
activities, including his early studies of the fur trade, his
biography of eighteenth-century explorer and cartographer Peter
Pond, his review essays on the North for the Canadian Historical
Review, his leadership of the Rockefeller-sponsored Arctic Survey,
and his trip to the Soviet Union. Harold Innis and the North crafts
a new narrative about the nature and scope of Innis's intellectual
project and provides a unique appreciation of his multi-faceted
professional identity. Contributors include Sergei Arkhipov
(North-Ossetian State University and NGO Vladikavkaz Institute of
Economics) Jeffrey Brison (Queens), George Colpitts (Calgary),
Matthew Evenden (UBC), Barry Gough (Churchill College, Cambridge
and Kings College, London), Paul Heyer (Wilfrid Laurier), Jim
Mochoruk (North Dakota), Liza Piper (Alberta), Shirley Roburn
(Concordia), Peter van Wyck (Concordia), Jeff Webb (Memorial).
Patronizing the Public: American Philanthropy's Transformation of
Culture, Communication, and the Humanities is the first detailed
and comprehensive examination of how American philanthropic
foundations have shaped numerous fields, including dance, drama,
education, film, film-music, folklore, journalism, local history,
museums, radio, television, as well as the performing arts and the
humanities in general. Drawing on an impressive range of archival
and secondary sources, the chapters in the volume give particular
attention to the period from the late 1920s to the late 1970s, a
crucial time for the development of philanthropic practice. To this
end, it examines how patterns and directions of funding have been
based on complex negotiations involving philanthropic family
members, elite networks, foundation trustees and officers, cultural
workers, academics, state officials, corporate interests, and the
general public. By addressing both the contours of philanthropic
power as well as the processes through which that power has been
enacted, it is hoped that this collection will reinforce and
amplify the critical study of philanthropy's history.
Patronizing the Public: American Philanthropy's Transformation of
Culture, Communication, and the Humanities is the first detailed
and comprehensive examination of how American philanthropic
foundations have shaped numerous fields, including dance, drama,
education, film, film-music, folklore, journalism, local history,
museums, radio, television, as well as the performing arts and the
humanities in general. Drawing on an impressive range of archival
and secondary sources, the chapters in the volume give particular
attention to the period from the late 1920s to the late 1970s, a
crucial time for the development of philanthropic practice. To this
end, it examines how patterns and directions of funding have been
based on complex negotiations involving philanthropic family
members, elite networks, foundation trustees and officers, cultural
workers, academics, state officials, corporate interests, and the
general public. By addressing both the contours of philanthropic
power as well as the processes through which that power has been
enacted, it is hoped that this collection will reinforce and
amplify the critical study of philanthropy's history.
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