An Intellectual Biography M. Şükrü Hanioğlu. racial roots.”5 Borrowing a page from H. G. Wells's popular scientistic book, The Outline of History, the high school textbooks prepared under Mustafa Kemal's guidance to educate the new ...

... Atatürk's favourite history book , The Outline of History by H.G. Wells . The Turkish Outline formulated the Turkish historical thesis which claimed that many if not most civilizations had been created by people of Turkish origin . The ...

... Turkey had a number of competent Ottoman historians , but knowledge of world history came to it from foreign works . Scholarly specialist studies or popular books , like Mustafa Kemal's favourite Outline of History by H.G. Wells ( which ...

... H. G. Wells's Outline of History. It was to become for him a book of revelation. As soon as he had finished it he gave orders for its translation into Turkish, and its publication by the Turkish Government a year or so later was ...

... Atatürk made a champagne toast and delivered a speech. To Ellison's surprise and pleasure, he made very favourable references to England and quoted 'verbatim' passages from H. G. Wells's Outline of History, no doubt speaking in French.

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... Atatürk : Tarih ve Dil Kurumları Hâtıralar ; VII . Türk Dil Kurultayında Söylenmiştir , Ankara , T.D.K. , 1954 , p . 53 ; H. G. Wells , The Outline of History : Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind , vol . 1 , New York , Review of ...

The Outline of History, subtitled either "The Whole Story of Man" or "Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind", is a work by H. G. Wells that first appeared in an illustrated version of 24 fortnightly installments beginning on 22 November ...