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Book SynopsisHeyer approaches his subject as a problem in intellectual history and social thought, includes major twentieth-century thinkers who deal with the communications/history question, and concludes his study with an appraisal of the work of several contemporary researchers who have attempted detailed studies of specific media or historical periods.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Mapping an Unacknowledged Tradition The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Foundations Communications and Universal History Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Language and Writing The Nineteenth Century The Establishment of Linguistics and the History of Writing Social Evolution and Social Theory Edward Tylor, Anthropology, Culture-History, and Communications The Twentieth Century Archaelogy, Technology and Civilization The Canadian Connection I: Harold Innis The Canadian Connection II: Marshall McLuhan History and Discourse: Michel Foucault Conclusion: Current Directions Bibliography Index
