Gibraltar y su campo: un estudio regional de las relaciones internacionales de España durante la primera Guerra Mundial

Abstract

The lack of secondary sources on Gibraltar during the First World War is due to the «problem» encountered in modern and contemporary historical analysis of the British colony. The different ways of thinking about «Gibraltar», from the Spanish, English and Gibraltarian points of view, create a fragmented panorama of studies, barely coherent with the transnational logic of the referential context. In spite of the limitations of approaches dependent on arbitrary frames of reference and political borders, this article contributes to Spanish historical study of the Great War, setting relations between British strategic activities in Gibraltar and the economic, social and political dynamics generated in the Campo Region by taking into consideration the Spanish Government’s attitudes towards good neighbourliness and Spanish-British bilateral understanding.