Yakup Bektas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yakup Bektas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yakup |
| FAMILY NAME | Bektas |
| SIGNATURE | BEKTAŞ Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum of American History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wiring the World
Reviewed by: Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks by Simone M. Müller Yakup Bektas (bio) Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks. By Simone M. Müller. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. 384. Hardcover $60. This book starts with an impressive description of the euphoria felt on both sides of the Atlantic in 1858 after they were connected by a telegraph c…
The Crimean War as a technological enterprise
Discussions of the Crimean War (1853–56) often emphasize its leaders’ military and political incompetence and logistic failures, which led to heavy losses both on the battlefield and to disease. This portrayal ignores the significant entrepreneurial and technological novelties that emerged from the war. Begun and fought for the most part along traditional lines, the Crimean War became a stage for the display of innovative technologies ranging fro…
A Bold New Enterprise
A Bold New Enterprise:The Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam Yakup Bektas (bio) and Roger Sherman (bio) Re-creating Islam's "Golden Age" of Science and Technology From about the mid-eighth to the thirteenth century CE, that is, during the long Abbasid dynasty (750-1258), the countries that came under the Islamic sphere of influence, with Baghdad as the center, became remarkably active in philosophy, natural philosop…
The German-Turk Miracle
In 1933 when Germany under Hitler dismissed all academics with Jewish ancestry and anti-Nazi leanings, Turkey, a young republic, was in the midst of a major modernization program, led by Ataturk, its founding father. Beginning that very year, its government invited a large number of them to take prestigious positions in its few existing colleges and other state establishments, in particular help with reforming its higher education and other publi…
Guns for the Sultan
Reviewed by: Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire Yakup Bektas (bio) Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire. By Gábor Ágoston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+277. $75. How did the Ottoman Empire become one of the world's greatest empires and how did it maintain its military might for centuries? These questions have long puzzled schola…
The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War (review)
Reviewed by: The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War Yakup Bektas (bio) The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. By Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. Pp. 427. €35. Starting with the Ireland-to-Newfoundland cable of 1858, telegraphic communication between Europe and North America excited great hope and enthusiasm as one of the triumphs of the …
Possessors and Possessed
Reviewed by: Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire Yakup Bektas (bio) Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire. By Wendy M. K. Shaw. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xi+269. $60. Possessors and Possessed is a major study of the advent and growth of the idea of the museum in the Ottoman Empire …
Mapping Early Modern Japan
This book is "a history of mapping as an idea," not a cartographic history, Marcia Yonemoto warns us at the outset. Her intent is to identify "the elusive processes by which people came to name, to know, and to interpret the natural and human worlds in which they lived" (pp. 1-2). Her more specific objective is to capture the Tokugawa geographic consciousness or spatial sensibilities as they are represented in maps as well as texts, especially tr…
Distant Ties
A History of Telegraphy
The electric telegraph revolutionized communication. With its instantaneous action and its wires crisscrossing diverse landscapes, towns, and cities, the telegraph came to symbolize a new technological age. Although it has received considerable scholarly attention, the history of telegraphy—compared to that of railroads, say—is yet to be fully appreciated. The title of this book by Ken Beauchamp, a longtime telecommunications engineer, promises a…
To Wire the World
The great hopes for wiring the world by a network of undersea cables in the early 1850s suffered a setback just a few years later with the failures of the Atlantic, Red Sea, and Franco-Algerian cables. In the face of the resulting uncertainty about submarine telegraph technology, entrepreneurs turned their attention back to overland telegraphs, which seemed more reliable for long-distance electric communication. The British government, for exampl…
Displaying the American genius
Shortly after he made a working model of his electromagnetic telegraph in 1837, Samuel F. B. Morse and his associates began an intense initiative to publicize and market it to the world. At first, using the social skills he had learned during his years as a portrait painter, Morse strove to gain the support of the upper classes in Europe. He and his agents saw the physical seats of institutions such as palaces and academy lecture halls as the mos…
The Sultan's Messenger
In 1877 the Ottoman Empire possessed the world's eighth largest telegraph network, extending over more than seventeen thousand miles. 1 The empire, spanning parts of three continents, its cities and provinces separated by deserts, mountains, seas, and rivers, discovered in the telegraph an ideal system of communication and union. No other technology in the nineteenth [End Page 669] century inspired the Ottoman world as deeply and widely. Its effe…
The Sultan's Messenger
In 1877 the Ottoman Empire possessed the world's eighth largest telegraph network, extending over more than seventeen thousand miles. 1 The empire, spanning parts of three continents, its cities and provinces separated by deserts, mountains, seas, and rivers, discovered in the telegraph an ideal system of communication and union. No other technology in the nineteenth [End Page 669] century inspired the Ottoman world as deeply and widely. Its effe…
Displaying the American genius
Shortly after he made a working model of his electromagnetic telegraph in 1837, Samuel F. B. Morse and his associates began an intense initiative to publicize and market it to the world. At first, using the social skills he had learned during his years as a portrait painter, Morse strove to gain the support of the upper classes in Europe. He and his agents saw the physical seats of institutions such as palaces and academy lecture halls as the mos…
The Sultan's Messenger
In 1877 the Ottoman Empire possessed the world's eighth largest telegraph network, extending over more than seventeen thousand miles. 1 The empire, spanning parts of three continents, its cities and provinces separated by deserts, mountains, seas, and rivers, discovered in the telegraph an ideal system of communication and union. No other technology in the nineteenth [End Page 669] century inspired the Ottoman world as deeply and widely. Its effe…
Displaying the American genius
Shortly after he made a working model of his electromagnetic telegraph in 1837, Samuel F. B. Morse and his associates began an intense initiative to publicize and market it to the world. At first, using the social skills he had learned during his years as a portrait painter, Morse strove to gain the support of the upper classes in Europe. He and his agents saw the physical seats of institutions such as palaces and academy lecture halls as the mos…
To Wire the World
The great hopes for wiring the world by a network of undersea cables in the early 1850s suffered a setback just a few years later with the failures of the Atlantic, Red Sea, and Franco-Algerian cables. In the face of the resulting uncertainty about submarine telegraph technology, entrepreneurs turned their attention back to overland telegraphs, which seemed more reliable for long-distance electric communication. The British government, for exampl…
A History of Telegraphy
The electric telegraph revolutionized communication. With its instantaneous action and its wires crisscrossing diverse landscapes, towns, and cities, the telegraph came to symbolize a new technological age. Although it has received considerable scholarly attention, the history of telegraphy—compared to that of railroads, say—is yet to be fully appreciated. The title of this book by Ken Beauchamp, a longtime telecommunications engineer, promises a…
Possessors and Possessed
Reviewed by: Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire Yakup Bektas (bio) Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire. By Wendy M. K. Shaw. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xi+269. $60. Possessors and Possessed is a major study of the advent and growth of the idea of the museum in the Ottoman Empire …
Mapping Early Modern Japan
This book is "a history of mapping as an idea," not a cartographic history, Marcia Yonemoto warns us at the outset. Her intent is to identify "the elusive processes by which people came to name, to know, and to interpret the natural and human worlds in which they lived" (pp. 1-2). Her more specific objective is to capture the Tokugawa geographic consciousness or spatial sensibilities as they are represented in maps as well as texts, especially tr…
Distant Ties
The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War (review)
Reviewed by: The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War Yakup Bektas (bio) The European Cable Companies in South America before the First World War. By Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. Pp. 427. €35. Starting with the Ireland-to-Newfoundland cable of 1858, telegraphic communication between Europe and North America excited great hope and enthusiasm as one of the triumphs of the …
Guns for the Sultan
Reviewed by: Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire Yakup Bektas (bio) Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire. By Gábor Ágoston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+277. $75. How did the Ottoman Empire become one of the world's greatest empires and how did it maintain its military might for centuries? These questions have long puzzled schola…
The German-Turk Miracle
In 1933 when Germany under Hitler dismissed all academics with Jewish ancestry and anti-Nazi leanings, Turkey, a young republic, was in the midst of a major modernization program, led by Ataturk, its founding father. Beginning that very year, its government invited a large number of them to take prestigious positions in its few existing colleges and other state establishments, in particular help with reforming its higher education and other publi…
A Bold New Enterprise
A Bold New Enterprise:The Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam Yakup Bektas (bio) and Roger Sherman (bio) Re-creating Islam's "Golden Age" of Science and Technology From about the mid-eighth to the thirteenth century CE, that is, during the long Abbasid dynasty (750-1258), the countries that came under the Islamic sphere of influence, with Baghdad as the center, became remarkably active in philosophy, natural philosop…
The Crimean War as a technological enterprise
Discussions of the Crimean War (1853–56) often emphasize its leaders’ military and political incompetence and logistic failures, which led to heavy losses both on the battlefield and to disease. This portrayal ignores the significant entrepreneurial and technological novelties that emerged from the war. Begun and fought for the most part along traditional lines, the Crimean War became a stage for the display of innovative technologies ranging fro…
Wiring the World
Reviewed by: Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks by Simone M. Müller Yakup Bektas (bio) Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks. By Simone M. Müller. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. 384. Hardcover $60. This book starts with an impressive description of the euphoria felt on both sides of the Atlantic in 1858 after they were connected by a telegraph c…
History (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Empire (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Telecommunications (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)