ABSTRACT
Since the 1980s and more so since the 1990s, a considerable scientific production has arisen around transnational issues, which has taken several guises: world history, global history, connected history, or subaltern studies, but also, in the European academic field, histoire croisée, which stems from unresolved issues of the history of cultural transfers, not to mention, in the other social sciences, the analyses of sociology or of postcolonial anthropology. All these perspectives have in common the fact that they are interested in cross-border circulations and their structuring nature. In comparison, cultural history, which still largely remains epistemologically structured around a national logic, must update its analytical tools to incorporate these contributions and assimilate the transnational paradigm.
