 Reading Shipboard Space: The Plans of Ships Serving the Netherlands East Indies, 1850–1914Richard Guy () Chapter Chapter 6 in The Transformation of Maritime Professions, 2023, pp 121-144 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract 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. Date: 2023 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-27212-7_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27212-7_6 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan |
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