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Heritage Ser.: History and Communications : Harold Innis, Marshall Mcluhan, the Interpretation of History by Graeme Patterson (1990, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press

ISBN-100802068103

ISBN-139780802068101

eBay Product ID (ePID)945579

Product Key Features

Number of Pages277 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHistory and Communications : Harold Innis, Marshall Mcluhan, the Interpretation of History

SubjectCanada / General, Historiography, Communication Studies

Publication Year1990

TypeTextbook

AuthorGraeme Patterson

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, History

SeriesHeritage Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight105.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisIn his challenge to long-standing views, Patterson offers a new way of understanding the work of two key thinkers, and new ways to think about communications theory, Canadian history, historiography, and history as a discipline., 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 field of Canadian history in his early work to non-Canadian history and communications. The distinction, Patterson suggests, is false; both the early and the late work of Innis are in the field of communications and, indeed, so is the study of history itself. Using nineteenth-century Upper Canadian political history as a focus, Patterson applies communications theory to such familiar subjects as the Family Compact, responsible government, and the rebellion of 1837, and shows how Canadian opinion was generated and shaped by media of communication. Both Innis and McLuhan held that the technologies of writing and printing conditioned and structured human consciousness, resulting in 'literal mindedness.' Using that insight, Patterson explores the thinking of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers of Canadian history, including Donald Creighton, J.M.S. Careless, and Chester Martin. In his challenge to long-standing views, Patterson offers a new way of understanding the work of two key thinkers, and new ways to think about communications theory, Canadian history, historiography, and history as a discipline.