Updated in a new 6th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change.
With revised new readings, this anthology continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Comm[...]
For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis's unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications-but very few have had an opportunity to see it.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 fi[...]