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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... social insurance scheme which would embrace many of the social security benefits embedded in Britain's National Insurance Act of 1946 . The proposals outlined by the governor , Sir George MacMillan , to his Executive Council in November ...
... social services ( including the financing of loans ) . The proposal was seconded , in similar terms , by Panayotti , an elected AACR representative , who stressed the social justice of taxing the wealthy and the need for social ...
... social identities , including those of nations , are formed not merely or even mainly internally , but by external engagement with that which is described conventionally as the ' other ' . Of course , social identities within 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 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 |