Privacy at Sea : Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History

Natacha Klein Käfer

ISBN 10: 303135849X / ISBN 13: 9783031358494

Published by Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Privacy at Sea : Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303135849X
• ISBN 13: 9783031358494
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 23D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 536 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.