History of civilizations as a cultural transfer

The book of a modern French historian, a German philologist Michel Espan, one of the creators of the theory of cultural transfer, includes his two monographs: "Franco-German cultural transfer" and "History of art as a cultural transfer. Anton Springer"s path. "
Theoretical substantiation of a new research method, which was born in the 80s of the twentieth century and has currently gained widespread in the field of humanities, is in these works side by side with examples of its specific application: in the field of history, philosophy, literature , fine art, as well as the history of disciplines studying them.
published in a separate section of the article by M. Espanya also indicate a possible geographical expansion of the field of application of the theory of cultural transfers: the European boundaries actually overcome and the objects of research are the regions of Central Asia, ancient Greece, Vietnam, the African continent, metaphorically considered by the author as Melting boilers of numerous crops