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Dangerous guests : enemy captives and revolutionary communities during the War for Independence Ken Miller
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks F 159 .L2 M55 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Ken, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners of war--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--History--18th century.
- Prisoners of war.
- Nationalism--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--History--18th century.
- Nationalism.
- Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons.
- Lancaster (Pa.).
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Prologue : a community at war
- "A colony of aliens" : diversity, politics, and war in prerevolutionary Lancaster
- "Divided we must inevitably fall" : war comes to Lancaster
- "A dangerous set of people" : British captives and the sundering of empire
- "'Tis Britain alone that is our enemy" : German captives and the promise of America
- "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801450556
- 0801450551
- OCLC:
- 869920813
- Publisher Number:
- 40023995421
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