This study's goal is to outline how environmental factors can be
systematically included into the perspective of entangled histories. So
far, the question how access to natural resources, energy, land-use
systems and agricultural practices have influenced unequal relationships
of power have largely remained confined to the field of environmental
history but do not belong to the established perspective on histories of
empire and colonialism. The study combines the two conceptual
perspectives of "environment-in-entanglement" and "practices of
comparing" in order to broaden the approach to how (post-)colonial
entanglements are researched historically.