Title: Colors and 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.
Subjects: Political culture, Symbolism in politics, United States, Flags, History, Flags, united states, Confederate states of america, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865
Places: Confederate States of America, Southern States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865