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Effects of the Improvements of Communication Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
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University of Toronto
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Extract

The advantage of having a tightly woven thesis to present to you is that it can be used in the introductory paper as a rug to be yanked violently from under my feet. If caution leads Professor Easterbrook “to remain, at least for the time being, in the informational camp,” it is obvious that only a total absence of caution would lead me, a professor of English, to venture before the leaders in the field of economic history in the role assigned to me today.

Type
Communication and Economic Development
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1960 , pp. 566 - 575
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1960

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