ABSTRACT This is a study of Joseph C. Byrne, an Irish entrepreneur who embarked on a number of colonial schemes and fashioned himself as an emigration expert. In 1848 he published Twelve Years’ Wanderings in the British Colonies. From 1835 to 1847, followed by a number of emigrant guides to the individual Australian colonies, the Cape of Good Hope and Port Natal. Descriptions of indigenous peoples proliferate throughout Byrne’s guides. While his texts were informed by his own travels, he also quoted liberally from official correspondence, newspapers, and other contemporary works. His accounts reflect both his own opinions, and also a broad spectrum of imperial attitudes and approaches towards Indigenous peoples. This article explores Byrne’s ideas of how Indigenous peoples might best serve the interest of British emigrants: that is how they might or might not be made ‘useful’ to British subjects, and also, in some cases, how their inevitable demise would provide ‘peculiar advantages to emigrants’. His accounts of Indigenous people illustrate the problems posed by the ‘native question’ in imperial thinking, and the way in which Britain grappled to envisage the future place of indigenous people within its colonies in the face of growing settler demands for land.

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JC Byrne，创业帝国主义和土著权利问题

摘要 这是约瑟夫·C·伯恩（Joseph C. Byrne）的一项研究，他是爱尔兰企业家，他开始了许多殖民计划，并将自己塑造成移民专家。1848 年，他出版了《在英国殖民地的十二年流浪》。从 1835 年到 1847 年，随后是一些澳大利亚各个殖民地、好望角和纳塔尔港的移民指南。在伯恩的指南中，对土著人民的描述激增。虽然他的文章是通过自己的旅行获得的，但他也大量引用了官方信函、报纸和其他当代作品。他的叙述既反映了他自己的观点，也反映了对土著人民的广泛的帝国态度和方法。本文探讨了伯恩关于土著人民如何最好地为英国移民的利益服务的想法：这就是他们可能会或可能不会对英国臣民“有用”的方式，以及在某些情况下，他们不可避免的消亡将如何为移民提供“特殊优势”。他对原住民的描述说明了帝国思维中“原住民问题”所带来的问题，以及英国在面对日益增长的定居者对土地的需求时努力设想其殖民地内原住民未来位置的方式。