1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007033800403321

Autore

Convegno per Santo Mazzarino : <1991

Titolo

Convegno per Santo Mazzarino : Roma, 9-11 maggio 1991

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1998

ISBN

88-8265-023-5

Descrizione fisica

280 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Saggi di storia antica ; 13

Disciplina

937

Locazione

DDR

FLFBC

Collocazione

Onor. Mazzarino

937 MAZ 3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000609370203316

Autore

SCHEID, Francis

Titolo

Theory and problems of Computers and Programming

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1982

Descrizione fisica

VI, 402 p. : graf.; tab. ; 28 cm

Collana

Schaum's outline series ; 23

Disciplina

001.642

Collocazione

500 SCHI 23

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968941803321

Autore

Constantine Stephen

Titolo

Community and identity : the making of modern Gibraltar since 1704 / / Stephen Constantine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

9781847796943

184779694X

9781781702048

1781702047

9781847792839

1847792839

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xiv, 446 pages) : map

Disciplina

946.89

Soggetti

Gibraltar History

Gibraltar Civilization

Gibraltar Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The economy, consumption and identity.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-435) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Governors and law, 1915-69 City Council and Executive Council, to 1940; Colonial government, City Council and housing, 1921-40; The politics of taxation, 1914-39; Conclusion; 10 Big government and self-government,1940-69; The City Council; Colonial government and post-war housing; Gibraltar's welfare state; Government finance and the politics of taxation; Constitutional change and the Legislative Council, 1950; Self-government and the Gibraltar constitution, 1969; Conclusion; 11 Towards the future: constructing a Gibraltarian identity; Politics, Britishness and national identity.

Statutory aliens, British Indians and the Alien Traders Ordinances,1920's to 1950's Belonging: from the 1920's to the Right of Residence in Gibraltar Ordinance, 1955; Under new management: the Immigration Control Ordinance and the Gibraltarian Status Ordinance, 1962 and after; Conclusion; 8 Earning a living in the twentieth century; The needs of the people; Paying the bills: garrison town; Selling goods and services; Selling the Rock: tourism, finance and gambling; Occupations, living standards and health; Conclusion; 9 Government and politics in the twentieth century, 1915-40.

Occupations and living standards Conclusion; 6 Governors and the governed, 1815-1914; The governors; Law and government; Charities: education and poor relief; The moneyed class and public services: the origins of the Sanitary Commission, 1865; Gibraltar politics: the Sanitary Commission, 1865-91; Gibraltar politics: Civil to Colonial Hospital, 1815-89; Conclusion; 7 Demography and the alien in the twentieth century: creating the Gibraltarian; Counting the people, 1891-2001; Marginalising the 'British': the Aliens Order Extension Order-in-Council, 1900.

3 Government and politics, 1704-1819 Becoming and staying a British fortress; Military rule(s); Good government; Civilian politics: cooperation and protest; Civic self-government; Conclusion; 4 Demographic management: aliens and us,1815-1890's; Population growth, 1815-1901; Identifying the alien, 1815-1860's; Civilian responses: subterfuge and denial; Tightening the rules: the Aliens Order-in-Council, 1873; Civilian responses: the Aliens Order-in-Council, 1885; Conclusion; 5 Economy and living standards in the nineteenth century; Demand; Supply; Payment; Economic management.

Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Gibraltar in 1952; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The demographic roots of Gibraltarian identity, 1704-1819; War and the partition of Gibraltar, 1704-5; Opportunities for immigrants; Military security, controls and surveillance; British Protestants and the others: censuses, 1725-1816; People and property ownership, 1712-1819; Conclusion; 2 A fortress economy, 1704-1815; Supplying the garrison and the town; External trade; 'Regulating' the economy; Fluctuations in the economy; Occupations, ethnicity and living standards; Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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....