Empire Without End

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

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

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

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

Ambitious, powerfully argued and beautifully shaped, written, illustrated and produced

Robert Gildea

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

Powerful . . . [An] ambitious and arresting work of impressive historical scope and scale

Times Literary Supplement