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industry
During the years immediately before and after Dickens's birth, parts of Britain underwent a massive transformation which most economic historians are still prepared to call an ‘industrial ...
morality and moral issues
Dickens's writings, whether fiction or journalism, are imbued with a sense of morality, and frequently engage with the moral issues of his time. In the words of the Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine ...
recaption
N.The retaking of goods that have been wrongfully taken or are being wrongfully withheld. It is a form of self-help.
retorsion
A lawful means of retaliation by one state against another. It is usually provoked by an equally lawful, but discourteous, act of the other state, such as trade discrimination measures that single ...
Samuel Smiles
(1812–1904),devoted his leisure to the advocacy of political and social reform, on the lines of the Manchester School, and to the biography of industrial leaders and humble self‐taught students. He ...
self-help Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
This term relates to measures taken by a State in response to unfriendly and illegal acts by another State. If
self-help Reference library
Eric J. Evans
The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
was a crucial concept for Dickens. Widely associated in late-20th-century minds conditioned by a decade of Thatcherism and Reaganomics with greed, financial sharp practice, and ...
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self-defence
N.1 A defence at common law to charges of offences against the person (including homicide) when reasonable force is used to defend oneself, or one's family, or anyone else against attack or ...
self-preservation
‘As a rule, all states are under a mutual duty to respect on another's sovereignty, and are bound not to violate one another's independence. Exceptionally, however, a state may in ...
speeches of Dickens
Dickens, who was admired and even renowned as a public speaker, appeared on many charitable occasions, for schools, adult education, self-help societies, hospitals, and at social celebrations. His ...
tort
N. [Old French: harm, wrong; from Latin tortus, twisted or crooked]A wrongful act or omission for which damages can be obtained in a civil court by the person wronged, other than a wrong that is only ...
