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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... Gibraltar Chronicle on 26 August ; and indeed , some further alterations were accordingly made.86 The order - in - council , with its 292 clauses and six schedules , was finally issued on 20 November 1865 and came into effect on 9 ...
... Gibraltar Chronicle , 1 Feb 1945 , P. 3 . 11 Gibraltar Chronicle , 3 March 1945 , p . 2 . 12 TNA , CO91 / 523 / 3 , Eastwood to Stanley , 26 March 1945 , Stanley to Eastwood , 14 April 1945 . 13 TNA , CO91 / 521 / 7 ; City Council ...
... Gibraltar Chronicle , ' that lotteries are a subtle and pernicious form of taxation on the poor.'125 While others might dare to dispute the truth of this proposition , it is certainly true that in 1947 the lottery was not the method of ...
Contents
Foreword by Professor Martin Blinkhorn | 9 |
A fortress economy 17041815 | 39 |
Regulating the economy | 45 |
Copyright | |
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