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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... labour . La Línea became a rapidly growing dormitory suburb of the town of Gibraltar , rising from a small village to a town of about 12,000 people by the mid 1880s . Rents there were by then between 4s and 6s ( 20p to 30p ) a month for ...
... labour camp – reformation and redemption through physical labour – and , as such , the governor had at his disposal a workforce under discipline . - - Convicts were employed to hack stone out of the quarries and to do construc- tion ...
... labour management headache for the governor and his colleagues was controlling the entry and residence of aliens in Gibraltar . Many in the civilian community were unwill- ing to exclude them , and this generated challenges to the ...
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 |