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  • Harold Innis and the North

    Appraisals and Contestations

    by William Buxton ...
    Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication studies.This collection ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Harold Innis on Peter Pond

    Biography, Cultural Memory, and the Continental Fur Trade

    by William J. Buxton ...
    Best known for his writings on economic history and communications, Harold Innis also produced a body of biographical work that paid particular attention to cultural memory and how it is enriched by the study of neglected historical figures. In this compelling volume, William Buxton addresses Innis's engagement with the legacy of the fur trader and adventurer Peter Pond. Harold Innis on Peter Pond ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine

    A 1967 New York City Seminar Featuring Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals

    Edited by William J. Buxton ...
    This new book recovers an innovative venture in museology from the late 1960s that has largely gone unnoticed. In 1967, media theorist Marshall McLuhan and his collaborator Harley Parker, pioneer of museum exhibit design, were invited by the Museum of the City of New York to moderate a two-day seminar on museum communication attended by leading museum officials from around the state and further ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Harold Innis's History of Communications

    Paper and Printing—Antiquity to Early Modernity

    Edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, Paul Heyer ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis’s unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications—but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible, for the first time, three core chapters from the legendary Innis manuscript.Here, Innis (1894-1952) examines ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Harold Innis Reflects

    Memoir and WWI Writings/Correspondence

    Edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, Paul Heyer ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Offering fresh insight into the early life of Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952), this volume makes available a number of previously unpublished writings from the renowned Canadian economic historian and media scholar.Part I, Innis’s autobiographical memoir, chronicles his farm-based family background, early education, military service during World War I, and the beginnings of what would become a ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Empire and Communications

    by Harold A. Innis ...
    Originally published in 1950, Harold A. Innis’s Empire and Communications is considered to be one of the classic works in media studies, yet its origins have received little attention. Ambitious in its scope, the book spans five millennia, tracing a path of development around the globe from 2900 BCE to the twentieth century and revealing the cyclical interplay between communications and power ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Yellowplush Papers

    by William Makepeace Thackeray, Stephen Wyatt ...
    Narrated by Adam Buxton, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 19 min

    Series of five comic tales by William Makepeace Thackeray, adapted by Stephen Wyatt, recounting the rise and fall of early-19th century footman Charles Yellowplush.Episode 1: Charles attracts the attention of an elegant gentleman, Frederick Altamont, who is pursuing the lovely Mary. Charles does his best to matchmake, until the awful truth about Altamont comes to light. With full cast. Directed by ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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