This paper explores the social dimension of cruising by looking at new forms of sociality created by the advent of steamboats along the Danube and in the Black Sea. Since a Viennese steamship company introduced cruises between Vienna and Istanbul in the mid-1830s, Austrian steamboats became a busy stage of diverse social encounters. The idea of ships as “floating spaces”, “historical arenas” or “contact zones” in which different cultures meet has been developed by scholars for a long time. Framed within the new mobilities paradigm, this paper details a large range of social interactions on board Austrian steamers based on the accounts of more than a dozen travellers who plied along the Vienna–Istanbul route in the mid-1830s to the mid-1850s. With sociality as an integral part of modern transportation, this paper analyses the early phases in the industrialisation and commodification of travelling and focuses on the social experiences that steamboat cruising provided to customers.

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多瑙河和黑海沿岸的“汽船社交”（1830 年代中期至 1850 年代中期）

本文通过观察沿多瑙河和黑海的汽船的出现所创造的新社会形式，探讨了巡航的社会维度。自从 1830 年代中期一家维也纳轮船公司推出了维也纳和伊斯坦布尔之间的游轮以来，奥地利轮船就成为了各种社交活动的繁忙舞台。长期以来，学者们一直将船舶作为不同文化交汇的“漂浮空间”、“历史舞台”或“接触区”的概念发展起来。本文以新的交通范式为框架，根据 1830 年代中期至 1850 年代中期沿维也纳-伊斯坦布尔航线的十几名旅客的描述，详细介绍了奥地利轮船上的大量社交互动。将社会性作为现代交通的一个组成部分，