Dangerous guests: enemy captives and revolutionary communities during the War for Independence

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.