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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... majority , but the colonial secretary , probably mindful of history , insisted that after any reform the government must retain its majority - five of nine - and this verdict was reluctantly accepted . The union representatives were ...
... majority on a legislative council , at least ' to start with ' . This was not just because ' Gibraltar is primarily a fortress and a naval base , and the position of the Executive Government must be safeguarded ' . More important , if ...
... majority on the Legislative Council , but certainly some wanted ex officio members to remain in the majority on the Executive Council , no doubt as a nec- essary block to AACR radicals , and most were pretty horrified at the notion of a ...
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 |