This article takes a fresh look at the history of private colonial enterprise in order to show how companies influenced British settlement and emigration to South Australia and New Zealand in the 1830s, thus connecting the settler revolution to global capitalism. Bringing into a single analytical frame the history of company colonization in the antipodes and its Atlantic predecessor, it examines how and why the actors involved in the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand invoked North American precedent to justify their early nineteenth-century colonial ventures. The article shows how the legitimating narratives employed by the colonial reformers performed two key functions. On the one hand, they supplied a historical and discursive tradition that authorized chartered enterprise in the antipodes. On the other hand, they furnished legal arguments that purportedly justified the appropriation of Aboriginal Australian and Māori tribal land. In illuminating how language and time shaped the world-making prophesies of these colonial capitalists, the article aims to extend recent work on corporations in global context.

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历史、主权、资本：南澳大利亚和新西兰的公司殖民化

本文重新审视私人殖民企业的历史，以展示公司如何影响英国在 1830 年代定居和移民到南澳大利亚和新西兰，从而将定居者革命与全球资本主义联系起来。将公司在对立面及其大西洋前身的殖民历史纳入一个单一的分析框架，探讨参与南澳大利亚和新西兰殖民的行为者如何以及为何援引北美先例来证明他们在 19 世纪早期的殖民冒险是正当的。这篇文章展示了殖民改革者使用的合法化叙述如何发挥两个关键作用。一方面，他们提供了一种历史和话语传统，授权特许企业在对立面。另一方面，他们提供的法律论据据称证明了对澳大利亚原住民和毛利部落土地的侵占是正当的。在阐明语言和时间如何塑造这些殖民资本家的世界预言时，本文旨在扩展最近在全球背景下对公司的研究。