Understanding Transimperial History: with David Motzafi-Haller ⁠and Professor ⁠Cyrus Schayegh The Transimperial History Podcast

The transimperial history podcast’s first episode overviews the field of transimeprial history. PhD Candidate David Motzafi-Haller  talks to Professor Cyrus Schayegh about the evolution, the future and the central characteristics of transimperial history. 

Join us as we discuss the nuts and bolts of writing transimperial history, the persistence of container thinking in historiography, how racial and class lines go across empires, and whether transimperial history is a fad. 



The three reading recommendations by Professor Schayegh are:

1. Véronique Dimier, Le gouvernement des colonies, regards croisés franco-britannique, Bruxelles, Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, coll. « Sociologie politique », 2004, 288 p.

2. Ulrike Lindner, Koloniale Begegnungen: Deutschland und Großbritannien als Imperialmächte in Afrika 1880-1914, Frankfurt/New York, Campus Verlag GmbH, 2011, 529 p.

3. Daniel Hedinger and Nadin Heé, “Transimperial History - Connectivity, Cooperation and Competition”, Journal of Modern European History 16(4): 2018: 429-452.



This podcast has been produced by Michelle Olguin-Flückliger and David Motzafi-Haller. 

The Pierre Du Bois foundation website: https://www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/

The International History and Politics department: https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/international-history-politics