The company-microstate: The Auckland Islands and corporate colonialism in global history, 1849-52

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of Global History Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI:10.1017/s1740022823000128
Rohan Howitt
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The Auckland Islands, a subantarctic archipelago 465 kilometres south of New Zealand, were the setting for one of the stranger episodes in the global history of colonial expansion. From 1849–52, these remote, inhospitable islands were governed and settled by a chartered company. The project was driven by lofty ambitions to simultaneously create a flourishing settler colony and unlock vast new whaling grounds in the Southern Ocean; the reality was a commercial disaster plagued by bitter internal disputes and a speedy abandonment. Drawing on the methods of global microhistory, I argue that the colonization of the Auckland Islands was a pivotal moment in the integration of the Southern Ocean world into global processes of governance, mobility, and trade. This anomalous case contributes to recent scholarship on ‘company-states’ and the central role of such hybrid polities in processes of cross-regional interaction and globalization.
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公司微观状态:奥克兰群岛和全球历史上的企业殖民主义,1849-52
奥克兰群岛是新西兰以南465公里的一个亚南极群岛,是全球殖民扩张史上一个奇怪事件的发生地。从1849-52年,这些偏远、荒凉的岛屿由一家特许公司管理和定居。该项目的动机是雄心勃勃,要同时在南大洋建立一个繁荣的定居者殖民地和开辟广阔的新捕鲸场;事实上,这是一场商业灾难,充满了激烈的内部纠纷和迅速的放弃。根据全球微观历史的方法,我认为奥克兰群岛的殖民化是南大洋世界融入全球治理、流动和贸易进程的关键时刻。这种反常的情况有助于最近关于“公司国家”的学术研究,以及这种混合政治在跨区域互动和全球化过程中的核心作用。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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