Introduction: Relational Empires

This anthology examines German and United States colonialism through their previously under examined shared and entangled histories in a global setting of empires. It grapples with and elaborates on the range, form, and intensity of connectedness between the two empires, seeing them as relational. It also sees that the German-US entanglements were not exceptional, but emblematic of an interconnected, competitive, and increasingly integrated worlds of empires.