And while, like these other students of universal history, he was much concerned with the way the universe was regarded by physicists, he was interested in the modern, post-Einstein phys- ics of relativity and rejected the mechanical, Newtonian physics Innis and the Interpretation of History / 5 of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [...] Lawrence is the one great river system that leads from the Atlantic seaboard to the heart of the Innis and the Interpretation of History / 7 continent of North America,'4 a statement that, in the language of Innis, suggests a fundamental bias of space. [...] Because of the struggle for responsible government within the colonies, and the triumph of the free trade movement in Britain, the larger mercantile structure collapsed by the 18505; but out of its wreckage emerged the expanded empire of the St Lawrence known as the Dominion of Canada.19 Of critical importance to any understanding of Creighton is the fact that this new empire very closely resemble [...] Thus he assailed the laissez-faire doctrines of Adam Smith and other classical econo- mists that relaxed the tariff structure of the old empire,21 even as he assailed the legal doctrine of the justices of the Privy Council who loosened the language of the written Canadian constitution to very nearly the same effect.22 Thus Creighton wrote as much from within a tradition as did Martin, for as the l [...] In the introduction to Empire and Communications Innis remarked that 'the subject of communication offers possibilities in that it occupies a crucial position in the organization and administration of government and in turn of empires and of Western civilization.' He further remarked that he had been led 'to give particular attention to this subject' by his studies of the river systems of North Am
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971/.0072
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0802027644 9781442664807
- LCCN
- F1024
- LCCN Item number
- P37 1990eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (251 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00228309 (OCoLC)779695997 (CaOOCEL)436376
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- 1 Harold Innis and the Interpretation of History 10
- 2 McLuhan and Others on Innis 32
- 3 Concepts, Models, and Metaphors 70
- 4 Archetypal Criticism 112
- 5 Formal Causality Applied 142
- 6 Comparisons 180
- Afterword 218
- Notes 236
- Index 250
- A 250
- B 250
- C 251
- D 252
- E 253
- F 253
- G 254
- H 254
- I 254
- J 255
- K 255
- L 255
- M 255
- N 256
- O 257
- P 257
- Q 258
- R 258
- S 258
- T 259
- U 260
- V 260
- W 260
- Y 260
