Dangerous Guests : Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence /

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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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Main Author: Miller, Ken, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prisoners of war.
Nationalism.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Nationalisme > Pennsylvanie > Lancaster > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Prisonniers de guerre > Pennsylvanie > Lancaster > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Nationalism > Pennsylvania > Lancaster > History > 18th century.
Prisoners of war > Pennsylvania > Lancaster > History > 18th century.
United States.
Pennsylvania > Lancaster.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Revolution) > Prisonniers et prisons.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Prisoners and prisons.
Lancaster (Pa.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Prisoners and prisons.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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