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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... person that is an inhabitant of Gibraltar , you are to cause every person that you may happen not to know to be stopped from coming in or going out until the doubts are removed.'14 Moreover , even resident civilians would know that they ...
... person born in lawful wedlock and in Gibraltar whose father at the time of that birth was a British subject but born ... person's father had been born in Gibraltar , or if he was not born in Gibraltar then provided his father had been ...
... person born in Gibraltar ; or be the descendant by legitimate male descent of a male person registered under the preceding rules ; or be the wife or widow of any such person . There was then a clever rule to get round the evacuation ...
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 |
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Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704 Stephen Constantine No preview available - 2009 |