‘… For it was founded upon a Rock’: Gibraltar and the Purposes of Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.

In 1853–54, cholera in Britain forced the leadership at the tiny British fortress colony of Gibraltar to make a choice. Should the colony quarantine ships from Britain or leave the maritime frontier open to ships from the metropolitan centre of empire? The first choice secured imperial communication...

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Published in:	Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 749 - 771
Main Author:	Nechtman, Tillman
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2011
Subjects:	19th century British colonial administration History of epidemics Prevention of cholera Quarantine laws Health regulations for ships Maritime history Public health & economics Commerce Gardiner, Robert Government policy History Gibraltar United Kingdom
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost