Entangled history
Entangled history is next to the transfer history , the histoire croisée , the connected history etc., another concept of the transcultural relationship history. It goes back to Sidney Wilfred Mintz and his history of sugar and was distributed in German-speaking countries by Shalini Randeria and Sebastian Conrad . With this approach, the hitherto dominant concept of a 'divided' history should be called into question and instead the connections and the exchange relationships between the different regions of the world should be the focus. Similar to the transfer history ( Michel Espagne ) and the histoire croisée (Werner / Zimmermann), she criticizes the comparison, but goes further than both, since she examines the interweaving or entanglement of more distant units such as Japan and Germany. In addition, the representatives of entangled history emphasize that transfer processes did not only take place from colonizing countries to colonized ones, but also from the colonies to the mother countries.
literature
- Sidney Mintz : Sweetness and power: the place of sugar in modern history , Harmondsworth [u. a.]: Penguin Books 1986.
- Sebastian Conrad and Shalini Randeria (eds.): Beyond Eurocentrism. Postcolonial Perspectives in History and Cultural Studies , Frankfurt 2002.
- Hartmut Kaelble , The debate about comparison and transfer and what now ?, in: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/forum/type=artikel&id=574