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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Half Title -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Medieval Europe: Age of Experiment (A.D. 1000 to 1500) -- Feudal Society -- In the Anglo-Saxon Context -- Finance: The Course of the Exchequer -- Development of the Royal Household -- Administration in the Localities -- Developing Techniques -- Typical Administrators of the Age -- The Extending Scope of Administration -- 2 Middle East: East-West Impact (A.D. 1071 to 1683) -- Politics and Administration in the Eastern Marches -- Ottoman Government and Administration -- The Harem -- The City of Constantinople -- Recruitment of the Ruling Institution: The Slave Family -- The Phanariots -- Other Administrative Developments -- Some Eminent Statesmen-Administrators -- 3 Sixteenth Century Europe (A.D. 1485 to 1603) -- Machiavelli, Administrator and Philosopher -- Tudor Administrative Revolution -- Tudor Administrator: Thomas Cromwell -- Administration of the Anglo-Scottish Border -- Tudor Administrator: Lord Burghley -- Philip II of Spain as Administrator -- 4 Early American Civilizations -- The Incas -- The Maya -- The Aztecs -- Spanish Empire in America -- 5 The New Administration Begins to Emerge in Europe (A.D. 1610 to 1786) -- Richelieu and Louis XIII -- Colbert and Louis XIV -- Prussian Administration, 1640-1786 -- Lionel Cranfield: Administrative Careerist -- Samuel Pepys: Civil Servant in the Making -- Sale of Offices -- 6 China: Sung and After -- Eminent Sung Administrators: Su-Tungpo and Wang Anshih -- Administration under the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties -- Civil Service under the Ch'ing Dynasty -- China and the West -- The Chinese Civil Service: General Review -- 7 Indian Statecraft (A.D. 1556 to 1853) -- Mughal Administration -- East India Company: Commercial Phase.

It must be confessed that, outside the inner circles of the administration, people in Great Britain show little interest in their civil service. It is taken for granted by the majority and used as an Aunt Sally by a considerable minority to whom the merest suspicion of that much overworked epithet, "bureaucrat," acts as a red rag to a bull. Much wider interest in the British civil service has, in fact, been shown in the United States, whence the most illuminating writings on the subject have almost invariably emanated. For this reason, the present writer believes that there must be many members of the American Political Science Association who will be interested in a brief survey of civil service development, with particular reference to the changes at present in hand. It might be as well to point out that this essay is written with all the prejudices of a writer in Britain, e.g., with regard to the importance of open competitive recruitment and a quite different approach to veteran preference; but this in itself may add something to the article's interest.