PAUL HEYER is Associate Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

• Preface 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

PAUL HEYER is Associate Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

• Preface 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

PAUL HEYER is Associate Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

• Preface 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