Community and Identity
Subtitle: The Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: November 10, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780719080548
Subjects: History -- Europe -- Italy; History -- World
Description: 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.