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Harold Innis
Harold Innis was a Canadian economic historian at the University of Toronto. In works such as The Fur Trade in Canada he developed the staples thesis, which explained Canada's development through the export of raw materials such as fur, fish, timber and wheat. His later studies of communication, Empire and Communications and The Bias of Communication, influenced Marshall McLuhan.
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