Making G ibraltar B ritish in the Eighteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9880447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey Plank (University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 331 |
| Pages | 346-369 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-229x.12013 |
| OpenAlex | W2143098050 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
The conquest and retention of G ibraltar was a challenge for B ritain in the eighteenth century, not only militarily and diplomatically, but also in the context of domestic politics and culture. G ibraltar was a B ritish imperial possession on the edge of E urope, an imposing but isolated outpost, and the centre of a trade network dominated by M uslim A fricans and S ephardic J ews. Its largest ethnic group was C atholic and G enoese. Never well understood by most B ritons, G ibraltar became an object of fantasy. The B ritish fantasies are revealing, providing evidence, for example, on popular understandings of A nglo‐ M uslim relations, the place of Jews within the B ritish empire and B ritain's relationship with the E uropean continent. G ibraltar defied easy classification and forced the B ritons who commanded there, resided there, or contemplated the outpost from afar to reconsider the importance of P rotestantism, E uropean heritage and B ritish identity within the framework of the empire. Before 1748 most B ritish commentary on G ibraltar associated the place with A fricans, but after the middle of the century it was increasingly viewed as a bastion defending one frontier of E urope. Following the unsuccessful S panish siege of 1779–83, G ibraltar became a symbol of B ritish strength and endurance, with B ritons standing alone against the rest of the world
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · CONQUEST · Context (archaeology · Empire · Fantasy · Frontier · Humanities · Identity (music · Literature · Siege · Symbol (formal · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Philosophy
Captives
The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1727-1731
British Foreign Policy in the Age of Walpole
Laying Siege to the Royal Academy
Early Hanoverian Consciousness
The Pirate, the Governor and the Secretary of State
Anglo-Moroccan Relations and the Embassy of Aḥmad Qardanash, 1706–1708
North African Piracy, the Hanoverian Carrying Trade, and the British State, 1728–1828
Gibraltar in British Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |