{"product_id":"communications-and-history-9780313261572","title":"Communications and History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeyer 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"ABC-CLIO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767354425687,"sku":"9780313261572","price":53.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780313261572.jpg?v=1758713032","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/communications-and-history-9780313261572","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}