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Empire Without End

byImaobong Umoren, Dami Olukoya (Read by)

A New History of Britain and the Caribbean

Brought to you by Peguin.

This book is not just written to enlighten. It is written with the optimism that it may contribute to a willingness to dismantle unsustainable 500-year-old hierarchies.


After five long centuries, the roots of colonialism still run deep.

This is a powerful new reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy, its transformative effects on Britain and the Caribbean and its enduring role in systemic racism today. And it is a call for us all to learn from the challenges and failures of history and to play our part in creating a blueprint for the future.

We cannot change the past. But we can repair the present.

© Imaobong Umoren 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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

About Imaobong Umoren

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.
Details
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529919165
  • Length: 906 minutes
  • Price: £16.00
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