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state precedes the consumer society. It is interesting,
therefore, to read an American account of Freedom of the
Press in England, 1476—1776: The Rise and Decline of
Government Controls , by F. S. Siebert, for it provides a fine view
of the relative advantages in producer-imposed versus
consumer-created uniformity. It is the perpetual and ironic
alternation of these two positions that gives to Alexis de
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America its rich fascination. The
same contrast between the interests of centralized government
and those of settlers is the theme of The Fur Trade in Canada
by Harold Innis. For, writes Innis (p. 388), it was the interest of
the centre to organize the margins for the production of
staples, not of consumer goods:
Large scale production of raw materials was encouraged
by improvement of technique of production, of marketing,