The aggressiveness—in the forms of racial and ethnic prejudice, imperial braggadocio, and unvarnished Eurocentrism—are all discursive in the travelogue.
And when you compare it to what was being done in America -- these are the typefaces from the same period in the United States in the 1920s, bold, brash, braggadocios.
At least, until the past decade or so, in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned Ottoman nostalgia into a style of governance and a stimulus to military braggadocio.