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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... housing conditions which reported to the governor in January 1937.95 This addressed the quality of housing and rent levels , and also called for closer examination of overcrowding , particularly in the light of higher standards set by ...
... housing issues . Quite likely he had been persuaded by his attorney - general , who had pointed out that the cost of slum clearance and rehousing in Britain was by then being shared by central government and local authorities , and he ...
... Housing Scheme approved during His Governorship . This Foundation Stone was laid by His Excellency General Sir Charles H. Harington , G.C.B , G.B.E , D.S.O , D.C.L , Governor of Gibraltar . September 1938.46 Impressive statements were ...
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 |