This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much 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. -- .
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much 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. -- .
Stephen Constantine is a Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University
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List of tables List of abbreviations Map of Gibraltar, 1952 Foreword: Professor Martin Blinkhorn Introduction and acknowledgements 1 The demographic roots of Gibraltarian identity, 1704 to1819 2 A fortress economy, 1704 to 1815 3 Government and politics, 1704 to 1819 4 Demographic management: aliens and us, 1815 to the 1890s 5 Economy and living standards in the nineteenth century 6 Governors and the governed, 1815 to 1914 7 Demography and the alien in the twentieth century: creating the Gibraltarian 8 Earning a living in the twentieth century 9 Government and politics in the twentieth century, 1915 to 1940 10 Big government and self-government, 1940 to 1969 11 Towards the future: Constructing a Gibraltarian Identity Guide to sources and a select bibliography Index
List of tables List of abbreviations Map of Gibraltar, 1952 Foreword: Professor Martin Blinkhorn Introduction and acknowledgements 1 The demographic roots of Gibraltarian identity, 1704 to1819 2 A fortress economy, 1704 to 1815 3 Government and politics, 1704 to 1819 4 Demographic management: aliens and us, 1815 to the 1890s 5 Economy and living standards in the nineteenth century 6 Governors and the governed, 1815 to 1914 7 Demography and the alien in the twentieth century: creating the Gibraltarian 8 Earning a living in the twentieth century 9 Government and politics in the twentieth century, 1915 to 1940 10 Big government and self-government, 1940 to 1969 11 Towards the future: Constructing a Gibraltarian Identity Guide to sources and a select bibliography Index
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