Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05221_Field_OMJE T48.txt

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was the great pioneer of his generation in studying
the fur trade and the cod fisheries and the
circulation within Canada, looking very closely at
the kinds of staples that made this country what it
was. Rewriting history, not from a European
perspective this time but from a Canadian-centred
perspective. There’s no doubt about that. In Innis’
work there’s a direct connection between that
early work on the circulation of staples through
transportation, let’s remember, because these are
things that have to circulate, and what he arrives
at later—which is communications—which is where
you don’t necessarily have things circulating
anymore. McLuhan’s argument about Innis was