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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Pierre Berton, George Bowering, Harold Innis, George Williams Brown, Donald Creighton, Richard S. Lambert, Michael Bliss, Gordon Barnhart, Elaine Bernard, Robin Winks, Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, Jack Granatstein, Ken Coates, J. M. S. Careless, Alastair Sweeny, Alfred Bailey, Ian McKay, Doug Owram, Hilda Neatby, Ian MacPherson, Bona Arsenault, John George Bourinot, John H. Bryden, John Hall Archer, Barbara Murray, Douglas Cole, Peter Busby Waite, Thomas Spira, W. L. Morton, Michael Barnes, Nick Brune, Robert Bothwell, Brian Brennan, Ken Adachi, Veronica Strong-Boag, Thomas Beamish Akins, Phyllis Blakeley, Norman Hillmer, Wendy Mitchinson, Marc Egnal, A. B. McKillop, Irving Abella, Mabel Burkholder, Malvina Bolus, George Bryce, Viola Florence Barnes, William Renwick Riddell, Muriel Dempsey. Excerpt: Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 - November 8, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. The affiliated Innis College at the University of Toronto is named for him. Despite his dense and difficult prose, many scholars consider Innis one of Canada's most original thinkers. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, wood, wheat, mined metals and fossil fuels. Innis's writings on communication explore the role of media in shaping the culture and development of civilizations. He argued, for example, that a balance between oral and written forms of communication contributed to the flourishing of Greek civilization in the 5th century BC. He warned, however, that Western civilization is now imperiled by powerful, ...
