Propaganda and Orientalism. The Ottoman Empire, its allies and its enemies in World War I, mirrored in picture postcards [lecture by Johann Strauss]

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Taglia, Stefano
Propaganda and Orientalism. The Ottoman Empire, its allies and its enemies in World War I, mirrored in picture postcards [lecture by Johann Strauss].
[Praha, 01.11.2022(EUR 1/1]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378009
Klíčová slova: Ottoman Empire * WWI * postcards * memory * Orientalism * jihad * propaganda
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
https://www.tydenavcr.cz/program/akce?id=4756&a=propaganda-and-orientalism--the-ottoman-empire-its-allies-and-its-enemies-in-world-war-i-mirrored-in-picture-postcards

This presentation intends to shed light on a specific aspect of Turco-European relations, the alliance of the Ottoman Empire with Germany, Austria-Hungary and eventually also Bulgaria during World War I. and the way it was reflected on picture postcards. This new medium was to attain a first zenith during World War I when tens of thousands of different postcards were published, and billions were sent by the belligerent nations. There is a great variety of types and uses of these postcards, usually manufactured in Germany or Austria-Hungary, including those distributed in the Soldatenheime in the Ottoman lands. One may view them as a vehicle of propaganda in the first place (with specific features such as the “Holy War” (jihād)). But there also other interesting aspects concerning the iconography or even the script and typograpy. There are fake views of different theatres of war, pictures illustrating the delicate relationship between Turkey and her German allies, as well as specimens of a curious sort of war-time orientalism.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0341627