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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... income tax . Like death duties , this was a direct tax which to be effective must fall disproportionately on the ' withs ' and less on the ' withouts ' ( whereas indirect taxes tended to be regressive in their impact ) . Moreover , like ...
... income tax to do more than replace the revenue currently derived from the trades tax , and he suggested that it would be tactful to present the measure to the Legislative Council only in those terms . Hence also a low standard rate of ...
... income tax for another year , until 1 April 1953 , supposedly to secure AACR approval.134 It was , however , thereafter a modestly successful measure , at least in the sense that collecting the tax on personal incomes and on company ...
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 |