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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... followed in August by a draft ordinance drawn up by his attorney - general to empower a body to deal with ' nuisances ' and ' the prevention of disease'.76 However , Codrington had in mind replacing the Paving and Scavenging Commission ...
... followed that immigration controls were essential , and it also followed that the past practice of colonial administra- tors also pretty much remained . So the Immigration Control Ordinance began by confirming that no permit was ...
... followed when the financial clauses , which appeared to give the City Council the power to commit the colonial government to indetermi- nate expenditure , were picked over in London by the Colonial Office and the Ministry of Health ...
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 |