Below is a selected list of books and articles useful for the study of TIH. Authors marked with an asterisk (*) are members of CTH.

General and methodological works

Hedinger, Daniel*, and Nadin Heé*. 2018. ‘Transimperial History—Connectivity, Cooperation and Competition.’ Journal of Modern European History 16 (4): 429–52.

Hedinger, Daniel*, and Nadin Heé*. “Transimperial History: The New Global?” Comparativ 35, no. 5–6 (2025): 611–33.

Hedinger, Daniel*, Nadin Heé*, and Satoshi Mizutani*. What Is Transimperial History? New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming. (Under advanced contract.)

Schayegh, Cyrus. Modern Transimperial History: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Mizutani, Satoshi*. Transimperial Trajectories: Colonialism and Anticolonialism across the British and Japanese Empires. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. (Under advanced contract.) [CTH runs a lecture course by Professor Mizutani based on this monograph; some of its chapters were presented at our Reserach Showcase Series.]

Edited volumes

Schayegh, Cyrus, Daniel Hedinger*, Nadin Heé*, Damiano Matasci, and Shellen Wu, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Transimperial History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. (Under advanced contract.)

Mizutani, Satoshi*, Tomohito Baji*, and Tomoki Yamada*, eds. Transuimperiaru Hisutorī: Shokuminchishugi e no Aratana Shiza [Transimperial History: New Perspectives on Colonialism]. Kyoto: Jinbun Shoin, 2026. [in Japanese]

Specific themes

Knowledge

Wagner, Florian. Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Schayegh, Cyrus, and David Motzafi-Haller, eds. Knowledge in Modern Transimperial History: Actors, Formations, Causes. Critical, Connected Histories 7. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2026.

Public Health

Coghe, Samuël. Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. [See our Meet’s the Author Session and Newsletter]