Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Making of Modern Egypt
Marked progress after r896 - Use of private enterprise - Electric tram ways - Light railways - Cholera and sanitation - Growth of revenue Fishery reforms - Census of 1896 - Its results - Filling up of the khalij-creation of National and Agricultural Banks - Indebtedness of fellaheen - Liquidation of Daira Sanieh estates by a company - Sale of Khedivial steamships to a company - Cost of reconquest of Soudan - Retirement of Sir Elwin Palmer - Appointment of Mr. Gorst-salt monopoly made over to a company - River tolls abolished - Further reforms in fishery system - Extension of telephonic system - Return of cholera - Octroi abolished in Cairo and Alexandria - Unexpected rise in market prices - Probable expenditure on irrigation from 1884 to.
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