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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... Civil Pleas , but with its own civil judge , to be assisted by at least one of two selected lay assessors . The civil judge , judge advocate , governor and one ' natural - born British Subject ' remained empowered as justices of the ...
... civil- ian self - government . Its frustration is revealing of outside British perceptions of Gibraltar and also of limited aspirations among the civil community . The 1721 petition of London - based merchants , to which reference was ...
... civil and service , 22,018 . c Plus 208 ' port ' people and 3,759 service personnel and families ( of whom 1,123 were family ) ; grand total civil 18,736 and civil and service 21,372 . f Plus 479 ' port ' people , 469 transients and ...
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 |