Format:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780801454943
Content:
Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: A Community at War -- 1. "A Colony of Aliens": Diversity, Politics, and War in Prerevolutionary Lancaster -- 2. "Divided We Must Inevitably Fall": War Comes to Lancaster -- 3. "A Dangerous Set of People": British Captives and the Sundering of Empire -- 4. " 'Tis Britain Alone That Is Our Enemy": German Captives and the Promise of America -- 5. "Enemies of Our Peace": Captives, the Disaffected, and the Refinement of American Patriotism -- 6. "The Country Is Full of Prisonersof War": Nationalism, Resistance, and Assimilation -- Epilogue: The Empty Barracks -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801450556
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780801450556
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3138660
