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Reading Shipboard Space: The Plans of Ships Serving the Netherlands East Indies, 1850–1914

In: The Transformation of Maritime Professions

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This essay examines the evolution of spatial organization aboard ships of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij ‘Nederland’, Rotterdamsche Lloyd, and Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, which carried passengers and cargo between the Netherlands and its East Indies colonies from 1850 to 1914. It relates this evolution to changes in the social organization of shipboard workers and passengers through the period, showing how ship architecture changed to communicate and reinforce new social relations and roles aboard. The period saw great architectural experimentation and increasing differentiation—between shipping companies, which competed for passengers, between the crew and the passengers, who came to inhabit novel separate domains aboard, and between social classes and races. As ships grew larger and shipboard society became more complex, spatial boundaries were reconfigured to reflect an ever-growing number of hierarchical levels in society. The chapter identifies several distinct stages in the evolution from sailing clippers, which characterized the beginning of the period, to the steam-powered, trans-oceanic liners that dominated its end.

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  • Richard Guy, 2023. "Reading Shipboard Space: The Plans of Ships Serving the Netherlands East Indies, 1850–1914," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Karel Davids & Joost Schokkenbroek (ed.), The Transformation of Maritime Professions, chapter 0, pages 121-144, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-27212-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27212-7_6
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