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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... raised to 48s ( and 24s ) in 1951. By 1956 the pay of an unskilled male public sector worker , including the ... raise the wages of bus drivers and shop workers respectively , and only from 1956 did casually employed stevedores and ...
... raised locally in two stages in 1948 and 1950 , suggesting that some in Gibraltar certainly had money to lend.109 A further loan of £ 400,000 was also raised in 1950 at 3.5 per cent , ' 110 and another of £ 250,000 in 1952-53 103 TNA ...
... raised , each amounting to £ 300,000 , each at a whopping 6 per cent . More bor- rowing was to follow later in the 1960s , including some at 6.5 per cent.112 The increase in interest charges reflected financial markets overall and not ...
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 |