ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author offers an account of transnationalism in sociological analysis and in historical inquiry. He argues that historical sociology offers a sound basis on which to study memory, heritage, and collective identities, as well as many other social phenomena, from a transnational perspective. The author also argues that historical sociology, with its rich background in classical sociology and in world history, needs to re-embrace transnationalism if it is to be of major relevance to the analysis of current times. Transnational history is not necessarily global history, while global history generally entails a concern with transnationalism since it is focused on global processes and how the world is becoming more globally connected. Entangled history draws attention to links that are more than connections, encounters, and exchange, but are formative of the units that are involved in the relationship and thus point to the formation of units of analysis that are interdependent and hybrid.
