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u/StudentRadical · 4 pointsr/vexillology

TBH I'm not so sure about what should be a good source and in some senses I'm overgeneralizing a bit: some anarchists wouldn't agree or perhaps more interestingly, would consider it fundamentally uninteresting. Individualist anarchists of the egoist - "what is good is that which maximizes my welfare" or perhaps "a good action is that which is determined by my interests alone" - stripe would go that way, but it's not that large a tendency in anarchist thought.

Before getting into anarchism proper, I'd recommend you to read about Marx who's the father of the idea I described. I recommend reading two short books., First, read the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. Just read it as a primary source and take into account what the world was like in 1848 and for the time being try not to worry what historical consequences you might ascribe to it or not: I'm not an communist, but there is time and place for everything. Secondly I liked Peter Singer's slim volume Marx: A Very Short Introduction. It's very lucid, written by a famous contemporary philosopher (who is not a communist) and only 120 pages long. Third would be to read about anarchism and in that I can't help you, but I shall put the main thing like this: Marx and the anarchists like Bakunin disagreed mainly on the methods by which to bring communism into fruition. Marx wanted a transitory state governed by the working class, but anarchists wanted to dispense with the state as fast as possible.

Lastly: a diagram of the idea that I alluded to, but after reading my recommendations you'll have a better idea of what the implications are.

u/bnimble-bquick · 2 pointsr/vexillology

I have The World Encyclopedia of Flags myself and I was honestly very surprised about the quality of the book and how much information it has. I've got one of those flag books that just shows the national flag, and then just has geographical information about each country, but this one actually has information about each flag and when it was adopted, as well as subnational flags and just general information about the field of vexillology, including history and design practices.

And then I read Worth Dying For last year and eh... I wouldn't recommend it. Sure, it had some interesting information, but overall, I just couldn't get with Marshall's writing style and it just felt a bit, eh, juvenile I guess is the word I would use.

However, I also read a book called Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America, edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Richard Jenkins, which is a collection of research papers about the symbolism of flags. Or like, social symbolism, social context, etc. It's not a book that's filled with tidbits of information or really anything about flag design per say, but more like, about how people relate to flags and the role that flags can play in a national identity.

I can also recommend reading articles from Raven or Flag Research Quarterly for anyone who is interested in the scholarly side of vexillology. The article Flags in Context: A Discussion of Design, Genre, and Aesthetics by Perry Dane, published in 2008, is one that I think could be of particular interest to people on this sub. It's sort of like an answer to Good Flag, Bad Flag, so yeah.

(I wrote my final thesis about flag design and the New Zealand flag referendum, so... that's why I've been nerding out on these.)

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u/DoritoMage · 4 pointsr/vexillology

Here’s the one I used: The red wasn’t the exact hue I was hoping for, but it was definitely still acceptable. I’m just really picky.

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u/xenvy04 · 2 pointsr/vexillology

Personally I like this design more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HKQRCKJ

And yes that is my Amazon store. Should be available in about a week, I've gotta ship it to the warehouse tomorrow.

u/JoeInAtlanta · 2 pointsr/vexillology

You can download a free sample if you have the Kindle app.

Alternately, there's a newer book with a similar title by the same author (A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols), for which you can download a free sample on Google Play.

u/TheBishopsBane · 1 pointr/vexillology

The colours of the current German flag originate with the flag of the Holy Roman Empire from c. 1400-1800. I don't know what the basis of the colours in that flag were, though likely the black comes from the actual colour of the bird depicted.

Similarly, the Belgian flag's colours come from a combination of the Coat of Arms of Flanders and the Flag of the Duchy of Brabant

According to my Firefly Guide To Flags Of The World the black in Estonia's flag "represents the peasantry and Estonia's historical suffering"

I agree about the purple, as well. Very regal. There's a minimal list on wikipedia of flags with purple.

u/chrismanbob · 1 pointr/vexillology

https://www.amazon.com/Worth-Dying-Power-Politics-Flags-ebook/dp/B01G43GEA6

It's an engaging read, if perhaps a little simplistic, that very gives a whilstle stop tour of how flags around the world have come to represent ideas to unite under or against. It goes a little into the technical aspects of flags but primarily focuses on their cultural importance.

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u/killthetoy · 2 pointsr/vexillology

I have no idea. I looked through all the world flags they sold and they're all correct (with a couple really bad exceptions) other than some details here and there. They even managed to get Nepal correct. I would genuinely like to know how this happened.

u/Walnettos · 1 pointr/vexillology

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u/Dominus-Tecum · 1 pointr/vexillology

Manchukuo/Empire of Manchuria:

u/RiketVs · 1 pointr/vexillology

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0187Z5UG8/
The flag is much lighter on the photos used for sale, so it's just lighting

u/cjlerch · 4 pointsr/vexillology

Purchasable on Amazon for a little over $30 USD. Dimensions are 5' x 3', and a 3' x 2' variation is also sold.

u/1magecrafting · 2 pointsr/vexillology

Also, if you just need 100 or so of them here is your source:
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u/MosesNemo · 3 pointsr/vexillology

It is called The Wallchart of World History and here it is as a jpg (from this reddit-thread) and here on amazon

u/thebigreason · 3 pointsr/vexillology

I was hoping it was something like this. Imagine how terrifying it would be to see this pop up on a ship way out at sea. These pirate flags look eerily similar to serial killer drawings I once saw saw in a book.

u/Box_of_Shit · 2 pointsr/vexillology

Technically, this is the flag of the front International African Association (1876) and The International Association of the Congo (1879–1885) before it was ever the flag of a nation.

If anyone wants to read an extremely interesting history of the Belgium's (really, Leopold II's) relationship with Africa (awful as it may be) I highly recommend King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.

It mentions the history of this flag, and discusses the organizations who used it along with harrowing tales of incredible cruelty and greed.

u/dufour · 3 pointsr/vexillology

The connection is even closer. The Swiss flag design was adopted in 1841 upon the recommendation of Henri Dufour of Geneva, who was going to win the Swiss Civil War for the Federal/Northerners in 1847. He is Switzerland's US Grant with the little difference that he managed to knock out the Swiss South (agriculture and conservative Catholics, no slaves in Switzerland) in two lightning campaigns that blasted away the rebel army with artillery but spared civilians ("with malice toward none") in one year. After the war, Switzerland changed from a confederacy of states into a federal state with its two chamber parliament based on the US constitution. Fearing a powerful executive, a seven-person executive committee structure was chosen. To placate the Southerners, the name "Swiss Confederation" was retained despite being clearly a federal republic, which causes almost as much confusion as the US slogan "a republic not a democracy". An excellent book about the Swiss Civil War, sadly out of print, is Joachim Remak's A Very Civil War.

A few years later, in 1863, Dufour became one of the five founding members of the Red Cross and its first president. Four of five were Swiss citizens. So when the decision to chose a flag, retaining imagery from the Swiss flag was not a strange idea. It was also fitting as Swiss neutrality which had been officially in place since 1815 meant that the Swiss flag would never be used by belligerents, thus an easily recognizable sign of peace and succor.

Incidentally, especially in the US, many first aid kits and emergency services reverse the red cross, displaying a Swiss flag.