Pockets of Privacy in the Maritime World: An Epilogue

Abstract

This chapter concludes the Privacy at Sea volume, providing a careful overview of the contributions of maritime history to the field of historical privacy studies as expressed in the previous chapters. By focusing on the dynamics of contraction and expansion, this analysis demonstrates how notions of privacy were adapted from the shore to the ships, showing how strategies of privacy enabled people at sea to navigate conflict and consensus, confinement and mobility, surveillance and support.