Community and identity

The making of modern Gibraltar since 1704

By: Stephen Constantine

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Hardcover | 19 May 2009

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This 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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Non-Fiction History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History

List of tables
List of abbreviations
Map of Gibraltar, 1952
Foreword: Professor Martin Blinkhorn
Introduction and acknowledgements
The demographic roots of Gibraltarian identity, 1704 to1819
A fortress economy, 1704 to 1815
Government and politics, 1704 to 1819
Demographic management: aliens and us, 1815 to the 1890s
Economy and living standards in the nineteenth century
Governors and the governed, 1815 to 1914
Demography and the alien in the twentieth century: creating the Gibraltarian
Earning a living in the twentieth century
Government and politics in the twentieth century, 1915 to 1940
Big government and self--government, 1940 to 1969
Towards the future: Constructing a Gibraltarian Identity
Guide to sources and a select bibliography
Index
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