Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar Since 1704This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and colony. Unlike virtually all other studies of Gibraltar, this book focuses on the civilian population. It shows how a substantial multi-ethnic Roman Catholic and Jewish population derived mainly from the littorals and islands of the Mediterranean became settled in British Gibraltar, much of it in defiance of British efforts to control entry and restrict residence. With Gibraltar’s political future still today contested this is a matter of considerable political importance. Community and Identity will appeal to both a scholarly and a lay readership interested particularly in the ‘Rock’ or more generally in nationality and identity formation, colonial administration, decolonization and the Iberian peninsula. |
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... British subjects Non- British subjects Non- birth Gib'ian Other British Gib'ian Other British Gibraltar 15,186 292 12 15,901 696 35 UK 421 2,079 2 856 2,593 8 Spain 2,839 190 359 2,632 87 244 Portugal 48 9 191 52 8 35 Morocco 212 34 ...
... British subjects and to aliens , thus sweeping away a long - defended distinction.16 Colonial Office staff had no difficulty in pointing out that elsewhere in the British Empire - and the Australian colonies of Victoria and Queensland ...
... British subjects , might be prevented in future from arriving and being admitted . It was even suggested in the Colonial Office that an ' educational test ' involving knowledge of a European language chosen by an immigration officer ...
Contents
Foreword by Professor Martin Blinkhorn | 9 |
A fortress economy 17041815 | 39 |
Regulating the economy | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Community and identity: The making of modern Gibraltar since 1704 Stephen Constantine Limited preview - 2013 |
Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar Since 1704 Stephen Constantine No preview available - 2009 |
Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704 Stephen Constantine No preview available - 2009 |