Sample-Spotting McLuhan

Books sampled in Marshall McLuhan’s War and Peace in the Global Village (1968):

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Codebreakers by David Kahn
The Senses by Otto Lowenstein
Theories of Personality by Calvin S. Hall and Gardner Lindzey
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
The Human Revolution by Ashley Montagu
Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White
Oliver Cromwell by John Morley
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Robots, Men and Minds by Ludwig von Bertalanffy
The Human Body and Its Functions by Charles H. Best and Norman B. Taylor
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot
The New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Artillery of the Press by James Reston
Art and Illusion by E. H. Gombrich
Studies in a Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
The Life of Napoleon I by J. Holland Rose
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler
Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace with introductory material by Leonard C. Lewin
Man and People by José Ortega y Gasset
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
“The Human Revolution” from Current Anthropology, Vol. 5, No. 3 by Charles F. Hockett and Robert Ascher
Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne, M.D.
History as a System and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History by José Ortega y Gasset, with an afterword by John William Miller
I Ching, Book of Changes translated by James Legge, edited with introduction and study guide by Ch’uchai with Winberg Chai
Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
Two-Factor Theory, or How to Turn Eighty Million Workers into Capitalists on Borrowed Money by Louis O. Kelso and Patricia Hetter
The New Science of Giambattista Vico by Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch
Animal Species and Evolution by Ernst Mayr