Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Innisian Puzzle

Part One: From the Margin, 1894–1939

The ‘Herald’ of Otterville, 1894–1913

The Great War, 1914–1918

One of the Veterans, 1919–1923

The Search for a New Paradigm, 1920–1929

The Great Betrayal, 1930–1940

Part Two: To the Margin, 1940–1952

Hunting the Snark

A Telegram to Australia: Innis’s Working Methods

Innis and the Classicists: Imperial Balance and Social-Science Objectivity

Time, Space, and the Oral Tradition: Towards a Theory of Consciousness

At the Edge of the Precipice: The Mechanization of the Vernacular and Cultural Collapse

Cassandra’s Curse

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Alexander John Watson is the president and C.E.O. of CARE Canada.

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... by giving us Innis in full, Watson's biography delivers the gift of a thinker about the human condition who was also an authentic Canadian prophet. This is surely one of the important books of the year. -- Roy MacSkimming The Globe and Mail - Friday, February 24, 2006

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