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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... addition to the terms of deeds disallowed the inheritance of landed property by persons other than Protestant subjects , unless the heirs ' shall be natives and inhabitants of this town and garrison ' . In addition , on pain of ...
... addition to help equip them . They also clubbed together in 1813 to present a silver plate ( worth 200 guineas , it was said ) to Commodore Penrose on his departure from Gibraltar ' in recognition of his attention to the Commercial ...
... addition , earlier retirement pensions would be available to them , and also an unemployment benefit at a basic rate of 24 shillings ( £ 1.20 ) a week.74 The assumption clearly was that Spanish workers , already notoriously ( or ...
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 No preview available - 2009 |