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Floral Patterns of India

AvHenry Wilson

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

251 kr

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A unique combination of photography and illustration reveals an extraordinary variety of floral motifs in the historical buildings of India: 'A jewel of a book' Embroidery magazine Following the success of Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India, Henry Wilson has turned, for this companion volume, to a single theme. But what a theme: the variety of floral motifs in the exquisitely wrought details of India’s architectural wonders is boundless, and one can only marvel at the way in which the basic elements of wood, stone and plaster have been transformed into masterworks of decorative art. From the illustrious Mughal Empire during its greatest period of monument-building and artistic creativity to the time of British rule, which brought with it an unprecedented period of peace that allowed great wealth to be concentrated on the arts, the richness of India’s architecture is overwhelming. Henry Wilson’s fine photographs reveal the skill, patience and imagination of the many thousands of craftsmen who have turned to floral motifs and rendered them with precision and life-enriching creativity. Juxtaposed with the photographs are Wilson’s own detailed drawings, all created by hand but with a stencil-like clarity that helps us understand the original historical patterns. The result is an invaluable sourcebook that will appeal not only to those interested in one of the world’s oldest civilizations and greatest cultures, but also to anyone seeking inspiration for their own creations.

Patterns of India: 10 Sheets of Wrapping Paper with 12 Gift Tags

AvHenry Wilson

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

234 kr

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Imperial Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1870

AvHenry Wilson

Häftad, Engelska, 1977

616 kr

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The Imperial Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1870 was first published in 1977.Through case studies illustrating the differential impact of European domination on African societies, Mr. Wilson surveys sub-Saharan Africa from 1870 to the 1970s. He describes the continent and its regions, analyzes the colonial regimes of Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and Portugal, and discusses African resistance and involvement. His study demonstrates how the Europeans inadvertently delineated what would constitute, within two generations, the outlines of independent African states. After the "scramble," the self-confident imperialists had hoped to control African development with low-cost administrative and educational schemes, under the illusion that they had abundant time. But, as this account shows, their timetables were subverted by the spread of western education through missionary activity and laissez-faire economic development, often on African initiatives.The end of empire was signaled by the growth of African nationalism combined with European self-destruction in two world wars and the emergence of the United States and Soviet Russia as superpowers. Led by Britain, the European states instituted abrupt decolonization policies which culminated in the Belgian withdrawal from the Congo and the collapse of Portuguese resistance to African liberation movements. In southern Africa, where Africans lost their land to European settlers, white domination has been more durable, the author points out, and Africans still struggle for self-determination.

History Of The Rise And Fall Of The Slave Power In America; Volume 1

AvHenry Wilson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

357 kr

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Teaching the Projection of the Sphere Orthographick, and Stereographick: As Also, Trigonometry Plain and Spherical; With Plain and Intelligible Reasons for the Various and Most Useful Methods

AvHenry Wilson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

374 kr

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History of the Antislavery Measures of the 37th and 38th United-States Congresses, 1861-65

AvHenry Wilson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

442 kr

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Trigonometry Improv'D, and Projection of the Sphere, Made Easy

Teaching the Projection of the Sphere Orthographick, and Stereographick: As Also, Trigonometry Plain and Spherical; With Plain and Intelligible Reasons for the Various and Most Useful Methods

Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in All Ages and Countries

AvHenry Wilson,James Caulfield

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

672 kr

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Printmaker James Caulfield (1764-1826) spent much of his career publishing illustrated books about 'remarkable persons'. He began his first series around 1788 and continued it sporadically from 1790 to 1795, with books on a similar theme continuing to appear in the first decades of the nineteenth century. More than forty years after his death, this collection of biographies (produced in collaboration with Henry Wilson (fl. 1820-30)) was republished in 1869. The edition's introduction explains that the renewed interest in these characters comes from the fact that 'we have nearly lost all, and are daily losing what little remains of, our individuality'. The vignettes, accompanied by engravings of each individual, describe a wide-ranging group - from the man who died aged 152 to a 'remarkable glutton' to a woman who lived on the smell of flowers - their only common factor being that they were in some way 'wonderful'.

AvHenry Wilson

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

523 kr

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