Navigating the Global and the Transimperial

Since the field first emerged around 2010, transimperial historians have sought to systematically foreground relationships between and across empires and their governments, peoples, and spaces, studying a range of connectivities and documenting patterns of both competition and cooperation. Their work brings the histories of empires, be they Asian, American, African, or European, into closer conversation, critically engaging exceptionalist narratives and pushing back against Eurocentric narratives on the formation of the modern world. This roundtable, composed of leading global and transimperial historians, addresses the most important historiographic question that this emerging field faces: what is its relationship to global history?