Privacy at Sea

This book explores the idea of privacy at sea, from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and economic ambition as technological and cultural shifts enabled a more extensive exploration of maritime spaces and global coexistence at sea. The exploration of the sea and the conflicts arising from establishing control over maritime routes demanded a more nuanced distinction and negotiation between State and private efforts. Privateering, for example, became a bridge between the private enterprises and the State's warfares or trade struggles, demonstrating that the sea required public control at the same time as it enabled private endeavours. Although this tension between private and public interests has been explored in military and economic studies, questions of how the private appeared in maritime history have been discussed only through a particularly merchantile lens.This volume adds a new dimension to this discussion by focusing on how privacy and the private were perceived and created by the historical agents at sea. We aim to move beyond the mercantile private as a direct opposite to the public or the State, thereby opening the discussion of privacy at sea as a multiplicity of lived experiences.
Chapters 1, 8 and 14 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Explores manifestations of privacy at sea in the early modern period Develops a theory of privacy as a spectrum of strategies to secure autonomy Draws on a wide range of sources, from letters and travel logs to tattoos

Autorentext

Natacha Klein Käfer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on healing knowledge and its connections to privacy and confidentiality in the early modern period as well as transcontinental networks of knowledge.

Inhalt

1. Dynamics of Privacy at Sea: An Introduction to Privacy Studies in Maritime History - Natacha Klein Käfer .- 2. Black Seamen's Privacy in an 'Anxious Atlantic' - Charles R. Foy .- 3. Women and children on board - The case of the Carreira da India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - Amélia Polónia and Rosa Capelão .- 4. Privacy in Recife, Freedom in Amsterdam: Juliana's practical strategies of autonomy across the Atlantic - Natália da Silva Perez .- 5. Breaching the Cabin Walls: Madness, Privacy and Care at Sea in the Eighteenth-Century British Navy - Catherine Beck .- 6. Some Sly Corner: Privacy and Sodomitical Space in the Georgian Royal Navy - Seth LeJacq .- 7. Anchors, Hearts & Crosses: Multiple Ways of the Tattoo Usage by Seamen - Philipp Schadner .- 8. Secrecy, war, and communication: challenges and strategies of the General-Government of the State of Brazil in the second half of the seventeenth century - HugoAndré Flores Fernandes Araújo .- 9. The Spinola System for Maritime Postal Exchanges between the Madrid Nunciature and the Roman Curia (1645-55) - Alessia Ceccarelli .- 10. A Very Secret Intelligence: The Parallel Espionage of the Republic of Genoa in the State of the Presìdi - Diego Pizzorno .- 11. Seas, Galleys, and Laws: Antonio Guevara's Del Arte de Marear (1539) - José Maria Martin Humanes .- 12. '[They] are not of any service, except for wasting wages and burning a lot of timber': The soldiers of the guard of the Royal Shipyard of Barcelona (1575-1600) - Aguilera López .- 13. The Eastern Adriatic and Privacy in Sixteenth-Century Ports and Ships in Italian Travel Narratives - Jelena Bakic. 14. Pockets of Privacy in the Maritime World: An Epilogue - Mette Birkedal Bruun.