<em>A Royal Colony was one where the British government had direct control of the colony. The original charter was revoked and replaced by a Royal One. A corporate colony was funded and run by one person or a group of people who funded the operation. The governing of the colony was handled corporate founders.</em>
Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of hegemony to describe a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing their rulers' values and accepting the "naturalness" of domination.
