Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsList 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
