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Modern Reforms In Egypt And Iraq (Political, Economic And Social), Mauro Asprin Hidalgo

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the decisive factors in twentieth century developments undoubtedly has been the rise of nationalism. Usually the child of foreign rule or colonialism, nationalism was the progenitor of reform movements that might have boon impossible without it. This applies particularly to the continents of Asia and Africa, whose peoples had experienced long periods of foreign rule. Two striking examples of how foreign domination triggered the move for independence, "modernism" and all the reform that this my entail are provided in Egypt and Iraq. Both countries have regained full independence only within the last quarter of a century.

The reasons …

A Study And Evaluation Of The Textbooks Used In Typewriting And Junior Business Training, Alice H. Harbers

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

he progress of man through the ages has been definitely marked by the various means he has employed in putting his thoughts into visible form. There are defnite milestones in the progress of the written word. History teaches us of the early Babylonian scripts, the strange and unusual characters of the Egyptians, and the writing of other ancient people. After the first early writings of stone carvings came the ancient development of papyrus in Egypt, the wax tables and atylus of the Romans, and the parchment of the Middle Ages. Then in the early days of that wondrous new era …