Historia de Gibraltar

Gibraltar has been a military fortress, a colony, a trading and smuggling port, a place of political asylum and conspiracies, an operations center for the Royal Navy, a bastion against Franco's foreign policy and, more recently, resistance to Brexit. Its history, or rather its stories, have fertilized a suggestive field of myths and images that, in the 20th century, were very socially mobilizing on both sides of the fence erected by the British in 1909. Some of its myths, with more or less less infatuation, they still continue to be invoked. In fact, they embody the legacy of processes of historical reconstitution of an English Gibraltar, a Gibraltarian Gibraltar and a Spanish Gibraltar. But none of these three monolithic Gibraltars reflects the richness of its history or reflects the complexity of the relationships that, not without conflict, have forged shared experiences in the shadow of the famous rock. Precisely, the main purpose of this book is to help spread new and different ways of understanding the history of the Rock from the 18th century to the present in Spanish.