Pub. of " An Emerging Bureaucracy in a Declining Empire", by Carter V. Findley
FAIN: RP-*0535-79
Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ 08540-5223)
Sanford G. Thatcher (Project Director: November 1978 to October 1990)
To publish a study of the transformation of the Scribal Service of the Ottoman Empire into something resembling the civil bureaucracy of a modern state.