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A timely and up-to-date history of a place and people embroiled in an enduring international dispute.

Title Gibraltar : a modern history / Chris Grocott and Gareth Stockey.
Publisher Cardiff : University of Wales Press
Creation Date 2012
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction
Gibraltar as British Fortress, 1704-1783
Trading Outpost and Naval Base, 1783-1906
Emergence of a Civilian Community, c.1865-1954
Relations with Spain, 1704-1969
Gibraltar and the Gibraltarians, 1954 to the present
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliographical note
Appendix: Article X of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
Index
Extent 1 online resource (186 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010719044205171
MARC RECORDS
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