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It was not until the fifteenth century that the first
symptoms of protection began to reveal themselves.
Before that, there is no evidence of the slightest desire to
favor national trade by protecting it from foreign
competition. In this respect, the internationalism which
characterized medieval civilization right into the
thirteenth century was manifested with particular clarity
in the conduct of the states. They made no attempt to
control the movement of commerce and we should seek in
vain for traces of an economic policy deserving of the
name. (p. 91)
Just why typography should have fostered nationalism
will become plainer later on. But the role of literacy and papyrus
in making possible the structures of early empires is the theme
of Harold Innis in Empire and Communications (p. 7): “Media