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

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
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1 Dynamics of Privacy at Sea: An Introduction to Privacy Studies in Maritime History
	Exploring Historical Notions of Privacy
	Meanings of ‘Private’ in Maritime History
	Privacy, Race, and Gender
	The Private Under the Public Eye
	Politics, Communication, and Intelligence
	Legal, Military, and Religious Perspectives from the Sea to the Shore
	Primary Sources
Part I Privacy, Race, and Gender
2 Black Seamen’s Privacy in an ‘Anxious Atlantic’
	Primary Source
3 Women and Children on board—The Case of the Carreira Da India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
	Introduction
	Women on the Move Across the Oceans
	The Carreira Da India: Daily Life on Board
	Women on Board
	Children on Board
	Risks at Sea
	Final Remarks
	Primary Source
4 Privacy in Recife, Freedom in Amsterdam: Juliana’s Practical Strategies of Autonomy Across the Atlantic
	Introduction
	Privacy as an Analytical Lens for Historical Sources
	Broken Promises in Notarial Statements
	Working in a Colonial Household in Recife
	Crossing the Atlantic
	In the City of Amsterdam
	Privacy and Freedom
	Primary Sources
Part II The Private Under the Public Eye
5 Breaching the Cabin Walls: Madness, Privacy, and Care at Sea in the Eighteenth-Century British Navy
	Introduction
	The Cabin and ‘Gentlemanly Privacy’
	Suicide, Self-Injury, and ‘Unobserved’ Spaces
	Lower Deck: Noticing but not Taking Notice
	Communal Privacy and Care
	Conclusion
	Primary Sources
6 “Some Sly Corner”: Privacy and Sodomitical Space in the Georgian Royal Navy
	Introduction
	Sodomy and Privacy at Sea
	Shipboard Space, Mutual Surveillance, and Investigation
	Surveillance, Privacy, and Publicity
	Conclusion: Secret Crime and “Publick Justice”
	Primary Sources
7 Anchors, Hearts, and Crosses: Multiple Ways of Tattoo Usage by Seamen
	Introduction
	The Earliest Records of Travellers Across the Oceans with Indelible Marks
	Increasing Reports of Seafarers Having Their Bodies Permanently Marked Since 1750
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part III Politics, Communication, and Intelligence
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
	Introduction
	“The Casualties at Sea are Several, and Cannot be Prevented as They Should be”
	When Secrets are Created: Ciphered Letters and Strategies of Secrecy in Communication
	When Secrets are Revealed: Political Uses of Seized Correspondence
	Conclusion
	Primary Sources
9 The Spinola System for Maritime Postal Exchanges Between the Madrid Nunciature and the Roman Curia (1645–1658)
	Introduction: Privacy at Sea and Postal Systems
	The Spinola Family Network Between Rome, Genoa, and Madrid: Ecclesiastical and Military Careers, Trade, Finance, and Postal Services
	Geronimo Spinola, Postmaster General of Genoa
	“Via the Sea Route Exclusively”: The Emergence of the Spinola System of Exchanges Between the Vatican Secretariat of State and the Nunciature in Madrid
	Workings of the Spinola System
	Geronimo and Filippo as Intermediaries Between the Republic of Genoa and the Roman Curia: the Port of Civitavecchia Experiment (1652)
	Filippo Spinola (1653–58) and His Successors (1658–67): Demise and End of the System
	Conclusions: News and Intelligence as Commodities
	Primary Sources
10 A Very Secret Intelligence: The Parallel Espionage of the Republic of Genoa in the State of the Presìdi
	Introduction: Some Historiographical Links
	Institutional and Non-Institutional Structures of Espionage: The Problem of the State of the Presìdi
	The Activity of the Genoese Parallel Espionage in the State of the Presìdi
	The Concerns of the Spanish
	Between Paris and Madrid: In the Service of Which Crown?
	Conclusion
	Primary Sources
Part IV Legal, Military, and Religious Perspectives from the Sea to the Shore
11 Seas, Galleys, and Laws: Antonio de Guevara’s Del arte de marear (1539)
	Guevara, a Legal Interpreter in the Del arte de marear
	Legal Space and Guevara
	Customs, Practices, and Privacy on Board
	Conclusions
	Primary Sources
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)
	Introduction
	The Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean: Rise and Fall of Massive Galley Warfare
	The Guard of the Shipyard
	“[He] Hires Sinful and Criminal Men to Be His Soldiers”: The Guard, the Lesser of Two Evils
	Appendix
	Bibliography
13 The Eastern Adriatic and Privacy in Sixteenth-Century Italian Travel Narratives
	Introduction
	Travelogues
	Food
	Trade
	Ships, Sailors, and Shipbuilders
	Women
	Dubrovnik and Men
	Conclusion: Privacy and the Adriatic, “a Sea of Intimacy”
	Primary Sources
Part V Epilogue
14 Pockets of Privacy in the Maritime World: An Epilogue
	Maritime Contraction and Extension
	Privacy Studies and Maritime Studies
	Bibliography
Index