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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... appointed , were brigadier - generals , two were major- generals , nine were lieutenant - generals and two were full generals . Of the twelve whose year of birth can be recovered , the oldest on appointment was 80 and the youngest 35 ...
... Appointed with full authority in the absence of these governors were lieutenant- governors , Sir George Don , Sir William Houston and Sir Alexander Woodford , the last until in September 1836 he succeeded Chatham as governor ...
... appointed unofficials , formally sworn in , were all justices of the peace and distinguished figures in the community , A. Mosley , A. Carrara , and J. Andrews - Speed . They then got down to the kind of business which was to occupy ...
Contents
Foreword by Professor Martin Blinkhorn | 9 |
A fortress economy 17041815 | 39 |
Regulating the economy | 45 |
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Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704 Stephen Constantine No preview available - 2009 |