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    Harold Adams Innis FRSC (November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author...
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  • Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works...
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    University of Toronto political economist Harold Innis. The College includes a fully equipped cinema known as the Innis Town Hall, which hosts numerous film...
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  • Staples thesis (category Harold Innis)
    approach were Harold Innis and W.A. Mackintosh." The thesis explains Canadian economic development as a lateral, east-west conception of trade. Innis argued...
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    Monopolies of knowledge (category Harold Innis)
    of key communications technologies. The Canadian economic historian Harold Innis developed the concept of monopolies of knowledge in his later writings...
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  • up innis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Innis may refer to: Innis, Louisiana, U.S. Innis College, University of Toronto, Canada Chris Innis, American...
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  • Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History is a book written by Harold Innis covering the fur trade era in Canada from the early 16th century to the...
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  • example, Innis's discussion of the priestly monopoly over writing that undermined the Egyptian empire. Innis (Empire) pp.44-45. Innis, Harold. (1951) The...
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  • Empire and Communications (category Harold Innis)
    published in 1950 by University of Toronto professor Harold Innis. It is based on six lectures Innis delivered at Oxford University in 1948. The series...
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  • Metropolitan-hinterland thesis (category Harold Innis)
    metropolitan thesis are found in the writing of Harold Innis, one of Canada's most respected historians. Innis' The Fur Trade in Canada, as well as his work...
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  • time. Innis therefore argued that the medium used to share information had more of a societal impact than the content of the information itself. Innis further...
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    political economy taught by Harold Innis, a Canadian doctoral student who had fought in World War I. According to Innis biographer, Donald Creighton...
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  • of Innis and McLuhan, who focused attention on the consequences of the medium, on what authors communicate and on what audiences experience. Innis explored...
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  • communications scholarship is from Harold Innis, these theories were compiled in the book Empire and Communications. Innis directly inspired Marshall McLuhan...
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  • Nobel laureate in economics for his work with the Black–Scholes model Harold Innis, contributed to the staples thesis and Toronto School of communication...
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  • Harold Innis: The Philosophical Historian. An Exchange of Ideas Between Prof. Marshall McLuhan and Prof. Eric A. Havelock," recorded at Innis College...
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    be one of his students. Canadian economist and communications scholar Harold Innis was a university colleague who had a strong influence on his work. McLuhan...
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  • of what he considered to be the Canadian family. The staple theory of Harold Innis influenced his research, much of which focused on the Canadian lumber...
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  • Donald Quayle Innis (April 21, 1924 – August 24, 1988), son of Harold Innis and Mary Quayle, was a geographer, whose primary research interest was the...
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  • credited with reviving the work of foundational political economist Harold Innis within the academy. Drache is a professor emeritus political science...
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    of the "language" of media. McLuhan departs from the media theory of Harold Innis in suggesting that a medium "overheats", or reverses into an opposing...
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  • Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Léon Guérard, Harold Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles Howard McIlwain, Robert Redfield...
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    Canadian historians from this period were economic historians, such as Harold Innis, Donald Creighton and Arthur R. M. Lower. Scholars of Canadian economic...
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    International Economy is a 1940 book by Harold Innis. After the publication of his book The Fur Trade in Canada (1930) Innis turned to a study of an earlier staple...
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    Toronto professor Harold Innis highlighted media technologies as a powerful contributor to the rise and collapse of empires. Innis’ theory of media bias...
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    hotter after 1947, historian Harold Innis, a major influence on Creighton, grew increasingly hostile to the United States. Innis warned urgently that Canada...
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    female researchers. Anne Christine Innis was born on 25 January 1933 in Toronto, Ontario. Her father, Harold Innis, was a professor of political economy...
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  • of well-known philosophers and theorists, in particular, John Dewey, Harold Innis, and Marshall McLuhan. In his essay, A Cultural Approach to Communication...
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    William Taussig. Canadian scholars influenced by the school were led by Harold Innis (1894–1952) at Toronto. His staples thesis holds that Canada's culture...
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  • work was complemented by that of Harold Innis, who was working on the history of media. The work Havelock and Innis began in the 1930s was the preliminary...
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