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The Turk
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Author : Ernest Wittenberg
language : en
Publisher: New Word City
Release Date : 2017-03-30
The Turk written by Ernest Wittenberg and has been published by New Word City this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-30 with History categories.
The Turk - or Mechanical Turk as it was sometimes called - was an ingenious mechanical chess player that defeated Frederick the Great, George III, and Napoleon (whom it caught cheating) and nearly fooled all America. Here, in this short-form book from historian Ernest Wittenberg, is the Turk's surprising and little-told story.
The Turk
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Author : Tom Standage
language : en
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release Date : 2003
The Turk written by Tom Standage and has been published by Berkley Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Games & Activities categories.
Part historical detective story, part biography, "The Turk" relates the saga of an unusual 18th-century robot--fashioned from wood to look like a man who was dressed like a Turk and played chess. 25 illustrations.
The Turk
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Author : Beatrice L. Bliss White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Turk written by Beatrice L. Bliss White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Fiction categories.
The Turk Chess Automaton
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Author : Gerald M. Levitt
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2000
The Turk Chess Automaton written by Gerald M. Levitt and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Games & Activities categories.
"This work contains a detailed discussion of the sizeable body of literature surrounding the Turk along with an extensive analysis of its hidden operation. A collection of published games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included, along with numerous other games known to have been played elsewhere by the Turk's hidden directors."--BOOK JACKET.
Imagining The Turk
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Author : Božidar Jezernik
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-12-14
Imagining The Turk written by Božidar Jezernik and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-14 with History categories.
A human being is a symbolic creature and, to the same extent, an active inventor of otherness. Europe and Turkey, The West and the Balkans, are infinitely exploitable symbols. Any symbol, inherently polysemic and socially construed, is continuously contested and negotiated. The image of ‘the Turk’ as a ruthless plunderer is still vivid in European collective memory. Although it occasionally still verges on ethnic mythology, it clearly belongs to a past where, along with the plague and famine, this name used to be mentioned in prayers more frequently than that of God itself. In the past, the name ‘Turk’ implied the negative of the European self-image. ‘The Turk,’ assuming the role of the ‘defining other,’ was considered as everything a European was not (primitive, barbarian, savage vs. civilised). As such, this concept was one of the constitutive elements of European (Western) cultural identity. The aim of this book is nothing less than a better understanding of the European past related to the Ottomans. An intellectual traveller who takes his Orient Express at Victoria, however, will have to get off somewhere half-way and spend some time in the part of Europe set between the Alps and the Adriatic before ending his journey in Istanbul.
Is The Turk A White Man
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Author : Murat Ergin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-09-27
Is The Turk A White Man written by Murat Ergin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with Social Science categories.
In 1909, the US Circuit Court in Cincinnati set out to decide “whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person”; the New York Times article on the decision, discussing the question of Turks’ whiteness, was cheekily entitled “Is the Turk a White Man?” Within a few decades, having understood the importance of this question for their modernization efforts, Turkish elites had already started a fantastic scientific mobilization to position the Turks in world history as the generators of Western civilization, the creators of human language, and the forgotten source of white racial stock. In this book, Murat Ergin examines how race figures into Turkish modernization in a process of interaction between global racial discourses and local responses.
The Mechanical Turk
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Author : Tom Standage
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Release Date : 2003
The Mechanical Turk written by Tom Standage and has been published by Penguin Group USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This title tells the true story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links an unlikely cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the complex relationship between magic, man, mind and machine, from the Enlightenment to the computer age.
Staging The Ottoman Turk
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Author : Esin Akalin
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-11
Staging The Ottoman Turk written by Esin Akalin and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, English dramatists, like their continental counterparts, began representing the Ottoman Turks in plays inspired by historical events. The Ottoman milieu as a dramatic setting provided English audiences with a common experience of fascination and fear of the Other. The stereotyping of the Turks in these plays—revolving around complex themes such as tyranny, captivity, war, and conquests—arose from their perception of Islam. The Ottomans' failure in the second siege of Vienna in 1683 led to the reversal of trends in the representation of the Turks on stage. As the ascending strength of a web of European alliances began to check Ottoman expansion, what then began to dazzle the aesthetic imagination of eighteenth century England was the sultan's seraglio with images of extravaganza and decadence. In this book, Esin Akalin draws upon a selective range of seventeenth and eighteenth century plays to reach an understanding, both from a non-European perspective and Western standpoint, how one culture represents the other through discourse, historiography, and drama. The book explores a cluster of issues revolving around identity and difference in terms of history, ideology, and the politics of representation. In contextualizing political, cultural, and intellectual roots in the ideology of representing the Ottoman/Muslim as the West’s Other, the author tackles with the questions of how history serves literature and to what extent literature creates history.
The Turks In World History
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Author : Carter V. Findley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Turks In World History written by Carter V. Findley and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory from steppe, to empire, to nation-state. Unifying cultural, economic, social, and political history, this work illuminates the projection of Turkic identity across space and time and the profound transformations marked successively by the Turks' entry into Islam and into modernity.
The Frontier Lands Of The Christian And The Turk
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Author : James Henry Skene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
The Frontier Lands Of The Christian And The Turk written by James Henry Skene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with Balkan Peninsula categories.