EMPIRE WITHOUT END

A powerful and important reckoning with Britain s imperial legacy and contemporary systemic racism A richly told history of Empire from which we cannot turn away AFUA HIRSCH I d have loved to have read such a book when I was a schoolboy COLIN GRANTFrom the 1500s to the mid twentieth century the events that took place in the Caribbean from conquest colonisation and capitalism to racial slavery revolution and migration and the people who forged them played a seminal role in creating modern Britain and the Anglophone Caribbean By the 1960s Western global empires had begun to crumble Yet the British Empire in the Caribbean did not end Instead colonialism was replaced with a new type of power whose impact can still be felt neo colonialism Empire Without End offers a new interpretation of the British Empire its enduring entanglement with the Anglophone Caribbean and the longevity of systemic racism Taking a longer historical perspective starting in the period of European contact with the Caribbean and ending today Imaobong Umoren looks at the impact and legacies of racial slavery to explore how later linked histories relating to capitalism class labour war political economy poverty gender and culture are crucial to telling the full story In doing so