HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES
PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY FROM THE INCOME OF THE HENRY WARREN TORREY FUND
VOLUME XVIII
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES
=I. The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870.= By W. E. B. DU BOIS, Ph.D., Editor of “The Crisis.” 8vo. $1.50 net.
=II. The Contest over the Ratification of the Federal Constitution in Massachusetts.= By S. B. HARDING, Ph.D., Professor of European History in Indiana University. 8vo. $1.25 net.
=III. A Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina.= By D. F. HOUSTON, A.M., LL.D., Secretary of Agriculture. 8vo. $1.25 net.
=IV. Nominations for Elective Office in the United States.= By FREDERICK W. DALLINGER, A.M., late Member of the Massachusetts Senate. 8vo. $1.50 net.
=V. A Bibliography of British Municipal History.= Including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation. By CHARLES GROSS, Ph.D., late Gurney Professor of History and Political Science in Harvard University. 8vo. $2.50 net.
=VI. The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest.= By THEODORE CLARKE SMITH, Ph.D., Professor of History in Williams College. 8vo. $1.75 net.
=VII. The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America.= By EVARTS BOUTELL GREENE, Ph.D., Professor of History in the University of Illinois. 8vo. $1.50 net.
=VIII. The County Palatine of Durham.= A Study in Constitutional History. By G. T. LAPSLEY, Ph.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo. $2.00 net.
=IX. The Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies.= By ARTHUR LYON CROSS, Ph.D., Professor of European History in the University of Michigan. 8vo. $2.50 net.
=X. The Administration of the American Revolutionary Army.= By LOUIS CLINTON HATCH, Ph.D. 8vo. $1.50 net.
=XI. The Civil Service and the Patronage.= By CARL RUSSELL FISH, Ph.D., Professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin. 8vo. $2.00 net.
=XII. The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts.= By C. A. DUNIWAY, Ph.D., President of the University of Wyoming. 8vo. $1.50 net.
=XIII. The Seigniorial System in Canada.= By W. B. MUNRO, Ph.D., Professor of Municipal Government in Harvard University. 8vo. $2.00 net.
=XIV. The Frankpledge System.= By WILLIAM ALFRED MORRIS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English History in the University of California. 8vo. $1.50 net.
=XV. The Public Life of Joseph Dudley.= By EVERETT KIMBALL, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History in Smith College. 8vo. $2.00 net.
=XVI. Mémoire de Marie Caroline, Reine de Naples.= Edited by ROBERT MATTESON JOHNSTON, A.M., Assistant Professor of Modern History in Harvard University. 8vo. $2.00 net.
=XVII. The Barrington-Bernard Correspondence.= Edited by EDWARD CHANNING, Ph.D., McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History in Harvard University. 8vo. $2.00 net.
=XVIII. The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent.= By ALBERT HOWE LYBYER, Professor of European History in Oberlin College. 8vo. $2.00 net.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE TIME OF SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
BY ALBERT HOWE LYBYER, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY, OBERLIN COLLEGE
“Our empire is the home of Islam; from father to son the lamp of our empire is kept burning with oil from the hearts of the infidels.” MOHAMMED II, THE CONQUEROR.
“A lord and his bondsmen.” RANKE.
“Les Turcs ... nées de la guerre et organisées pour la conquête.” CAHUN.
“The Ottoman government ... seems to have attained during the sixteenth century the highest degree of perfection of which its constitution was capable.” ROBERTSON.
CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1913
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