Modern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a foreign land and people. This book argues that through the nineteenth and into the first half of the twentieth centuries, thousands of domestic colonies were proposed and/or created by governments and civil society organizations for fellow citizens as opposed to foreigners and within their own borders rather than overseas. Such colonies sought to solve every social problem arising within industrializing and urbanizing states. Domestic Colonies argues that colonization ought to be seen during this period as a domestic policy designed to solve social problems at home as well as foreign policy designed to expand imperial power. Three kind of domestic colonies are analysed in this book: labour colonies for the idle poor, farm colonies for the mentally ill and disabled, and utopian colonies for racial, religious, and political minorities. All of them were justified by an ideology of colonialism that argued if people were segregated in colonies located on empty land and engaged in agrarian labour, this would improve both the people and the land. Key domestic colonialists analysed in this book include Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Kropotkin, Robert Owen, and Booker T. Washington. The turn inward to colony thus requires us to rethink the meaning and scope of colonization and colonialism in modern political theory and practice.

Winner of the 2018 APSA David Easton Award and the 2018 C.B. Macpherson Prize

About the Author
Barbara Arneil is Professor and Head of Political Science, University of British Columbia. Her publications include Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital (CUP, 2006), Politics and Feminism (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999), and John Locke and America: The Defense of English Colonialism (OUP, 1996). She has won the Harrison Prize (best article published in Political Studies), CB Macpherson Prize short list, Rockefeller residential fellowship, and the UBC Killam Research and Teaching Prizes. Her most recent research is in the areas of disability, cosmopolitanism, and domestic colonies.

Reviews
In this wide-ranging and pioneering volume, Barbara Arneil provides the first major history and theorisation of 'domestic colonies'. * Lukas Slothuus, University of Edinburgh *



Book Information
ISBN 9780198803423
Author Barbara Arneil
Format Hardback
Page Count 300
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 604g
Dimensions(mm) 243mm * 168mm * 24mm