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Dangerous guests : enemy captives and revolutionary communities during the War for Independence /
In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners--both British regulars and th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : a community at war
- "A colony of aliens" : diversity, politics, and war in pre-revolutionary Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- "Divided we must inevitably fall" : war comes to Lancaster
- "A dangerous set of people" : British captives and the making of revolutionary identity
- "'Tis Britain alone that is our enemy" : German captives and the making of American identity
- "Enemies of our peace" : captives, the disaffected, and the refinement of American patriotism
- "The country is full of prisoners of war" : nationalism, resistance, and assimilation
- Epilogue : the empty barracks.