Empire Without End

Rewardingly readable … Empire Without End is a valuable and accessible compendium with Umoren skilfully distilling complicated histories … With forensic analysis, Umoren skewers British mendacity perfected over centuries – Colin Grant * Observer *
Powerful … [An] ambitious and arresting work of impressive historical scope and scale * Times Literary Supplement *
Ambitious, powerfully argued and beautifully shaped, written, illustrated and produced – Robert Gildea
Gracefully and insightfully, Empire Without End demonstrates the profound interconnectedness of the contemporary world: the ways in which Britain was made, and the Caribbean unmade, and how politics and culture were profoundly shaped in very different societies. Anyone seeking to understand the upsurge of racial imperialism in our own time cannot afford to miss it – Pankaj Mishra
This book carefully places today’s racial injustice where it belongs – in the context of a richly told, unending history of Empire from which we cannot turn away – Afua Hirsch
The book that we have needed for so long, illuminating a narrative that has long been scattered among fragments of other stories. An elegant and powerful triumph of historical narration of a five-hundred-year-old story that binds Britain and the Caribbean till today. In clear and compassionate prose, Imaobong Umoren calls on us to reckon collectively with this past, laying the groundwork for us to do so with this epic account – Priya Satia, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University
A very powerful account of the entanglements between Britain and the Caribbean, from the moment that planters first appreciated the profits they could make from sugar and slavery to Black Lives Matter and the backlash against it – Alan Lester
An all-encompassing, immensely readable, centuries-spanning history of the Caribbean’s relationship with Britain… it deserves to reach a wide, general audience * History Today *

IMAOBONG UMOREN is an associate professor of International History at the London School of Economics where she specialises in histories of racism, women and political thought in the Caribbean, Britain and US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empire Without End received the 2020–2021 British Library Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award.

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