{"product_id":"domestic-colonies-the-colonial-turn-inward-9780198803423","title":"Domestic Colonies: The Colonial Turn Inward","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barbara Arneil\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Theory - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a \u003cem\u003eforeign\u003c\/em\u003e land and people. This book argues that through the nineteenth and into the first half of the twentieth centuries, thousands of \u003cem\u003e domestic\u003c\/em\u003e colonies were proposed and\/or created by governments and civil society organizations for \u003cem\u003e fellow citizens\u003c\/em\u003e as opposed to foreigners and \u003cem\u003e within their own borders\u003c\/em\u003e rather than overseas. Such colonies sought to solve every social problem arising within industrializing and urbanizing states. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eDomestic Colonies\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889909776535,"sku":"9780198803423","price":13012.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198803423.webp?v=1781178189","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/domestic-colonies-the-colonial-turn-inward-9780198803423","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}