Colors and blood
Subtitle: flag passions of the Confederate South
By: Robert E. Bonner.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Flags -- Confederate States of America; Symbolism in politics -- Confederate States of America; Symbolism in politics -- Southern States; Political culture -- Southern States -- History; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Other titles: Colors & blood
Description: "As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy sustained itself for as long as it did by cultivating the allegiances of countless ordinary citizens. Bonner also comments more broadly on flag passions - those intense emotional reactions to waving pieces of cloth that inflame patriots to kill and die."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.