Introduction -- Continuities in communication from early man to modern times / Margaret Mead -- Early Mesopotamia, 2500-1000 B.C. / Jacob J. Finkelstein -- Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires / A. Leo Oppenheim -- Egyptian civilization / John A. Wilson -- Indian civilization / R.S. Sharma -- On the spread of Buddhism to China ; Chinese civilization / Arthur F. Wright -- Classical civilization / John Ferguson -- Judaism : the psychology of the prophets / Max Weber -- Christian missions in the ancient world / Charles W. Forman -- Communication in classical Islam / George Kirk -- The modernization of social communication / Serif Mardin -- Ottoman political communication / Bruce McGowan -- Propaganda functions of poetry / Talat Sait Halman -- Communication patterns in centralized empires / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Western civilization : the middle ages / Robert Brentano.
