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

by Ken Miller

Book Overview

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 their so-called Hessian auxiliaries--in makeshift detention camps far from the fighting. As the Americans' principal site for incarcerating enemy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501725882
• ISBN13: 9781501725883
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher