Harold Innis's History of Communications: Paper and Printing-Antiquity to Early Modernity - Hardcover

by William J. Buxton (Editor), Michael R. Cheney (Editor), Paul Heyer (Editor)

Exploring how social order changes as the means of communication change, this volume makes widely accessible, for the first time, three extant chapters from Harold Innis's History of Communications--a legendary manuscript known of by many media historians, but seen by very few.

Author Biography

William J. Buxton is professor of communication studies at Concordia University in Montreal; his numerous publications include Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State, Harold Innis in the New Century, and Harold Innis and the North. Michael R. Cheney is professor of communication and associate professor of economics at the University of Illinois Springfield. He served as inaugural editor for the Journal of Media Sociology and publishes on politics, culture, and technology. Paul Heyer is professor of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His publications include Communication and History, Titanic Century, and Harold Innis.