Colors and Blood : : Flag Passions of the Confederate South /

Colors and Blood : : Flag Passions of the Confederate South / / Robert E. Bonner.

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...

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Bonner, Robert E.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2002
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Waving Colors and Boiling Blood
  • 1. The Stars and Stripes of Senator Davis. A Prologue
  • 2. The Standards of State Resistance
  • 3. Selecting and Singing a New Constellation
  • 4. Blood Sacrifice and the Colors of War
  • 5. The Southern Cross and Confederate Consolidation
  • 6. Treason's Banner and the Colors of Loyalty
  • 7. Conquered Banners, Furled and Unfurled
  • Notes
  • Index

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