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Gibraltar, Identity and Empire

This book explores the influences which have helped to create a complex and distinctive Gibraltarian sense of identity. The book focuses on geographical, environmental, ethnical, economic and political factors, and goes on to review the past and present dependence on the British and the very substantial legacy of British ideas and practices.

Religion and language reveal both British and non-British influences Anglican and other non-conformist Churches having made their mark. However, Roman Catholicism, with its direct link to Rome, emerges as the religion of the people. The British imposed English as the predominant language, in direct competition with the language of the area, Spanish: thus Gibraltarians became bilingual, but with their own linguistic idiosyncrasies. The formal education system, first religious and later secular, is seen to be one of the most powerful formative factors. Practice now follows British examples closely, with higher education relying entirely on provision in the United Kingdom.

E.G. Archer draws on extensive primary and secondary sources, as well as oral evidence, to illuminate the formation of the Gibraltarian identity over the past three centuries. He identifies various informal cultural influences including games and recreations, the media, the press and the arts which reflect British ideas and values and underpin Gibraltar's class structure. He argues that the people of Gibraltar, while separate and unique, are largely the product of the British colonial presence on the Rock; and that Gibraltar is very much an offspring of empire.

Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of the British possession of Gibraltar, this topical book will be of great interest to students of European politics and all those with an interest in Gibraltar.

E.G. Archer has been successively a teacher, headteacher and university lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He served as the Secretary of the Hispanic Society of Scotland for over 13 years. A frequent visitor to Gibraltar, he co-authored Education in Gibraltar 17042004, and a book on the village of Catalan Bay.

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Gibraltar, Identity and Empire

E.G. Archer

For E.A.A.

First published 2006
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Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4RN

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