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Book Review


Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York. By Judith L. Van Buskirk. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 260 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8122-3675-0.)

A sign on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for a local museum gently invokes the irony that a nineteenth-century American intramural conflict that produced unspeakable casualties could have been a "civil" war. The American Revolution is also viewed as a fratricidal struggle now, but, in the New York City region at least, Judith L. Van Buskirk finds its defining attributes in its civility and its organization around complex cultural codes that limited adversarial conduct. . . .
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