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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... garrison , 3,200 civilians ) , and by 1814 nearly 17,000 ( 6,800 garrison , 10,100 civilians ) . By the latter date this was a larger resident population than ever before in the history of the Gibraltar peninsula , and a market of ...
... garrison's allegiances naturally lay was trumpeted on such occasions as royal birthdays and , for example , on 25 October 1809 , when the golden jubilee of King George III was publicised with ten minutes of celebratory gunfire from over ...
... garrison of £ 8,203,230 over twenty - six years . " In the nineteenth century the garrison establishment was rarely below 5,000 , and the practice of allowing officers and even some other ranks ' to be accompanied by their families ...
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 |