Abstract
The aim of this article is to study the circulation of the comparative method in the social sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through a field of transfers characterized by a series of connections, overlapping processes and cross-influences that made this method a scientific paradigm. Therefore, here we study less the characteristics of comparative history than the transfers that made it possible; less the comparative historians than the disciplinary exchanges, the reciprocal influences, among themselves and with other comparative historians. The analysis of their works, articles or books of the time, or those written about them, made it possible to reconstruct the ideas, the circulation of knowledge and the scientific practices that defined the profile of comparative history, as well as global history, among the French historians of the Annales movement.
Keywords
Transfer fields; cross-cultural comparisons; comparative method; comparative history;
Annales