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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...

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Autor principal: Miller, Ken, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.