Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives And Revolutionary Communities During The War For Independence

Synopsis

In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller Reveals How Wartime Pressures Nurtured A Budding Patriotism In The Ethnically Diverse Revolutionary Community Of Lancaster, Pennsylvania--jacket. 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. Ken Miller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.