- Imprint: Vintage
- ISBN: 9781529967401
- Length: 512 pages
- Price: £10.99
Empire Without End
A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
Colin Grant, ObserverRewardingly 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
Robert GildeaAmbitious, powerfully argued and beautifully shaped, written, illustrated and produced
Pankaj MishraGracefully 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
Afua HirschThis 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
Priya Satia, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford UniversityThe 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
Alan LesterA 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
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.
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