This volume examines 'domestic colonialism' of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and analyzes domestic colonies empirically - across several countries using primary, archival, and secondary sources - and theoretically, through the writings of leading thinkers of the period.

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.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: 'Western' Colonization and Colonialism


• 3: Labour Colonies in Europe


• 4: Labour Colonies in North America


• 5: Farm Colonies for the Irrational in Europe and America


• 6: Farm Colonies for the Irrational in Britain and Canada


• 7: Foucault and Eugenics versus Domestic Colonialism


• 8: Utopian Colonies: Doukhobor and Socialist Colonies


• 9: Utopian Colonies: African American Colonies


• 10: The Turn Inward: Rethinking the Colonial