Dirda, Michael;Dirda, Michael
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Virginia Quarterly Review; Fall2013, Vol. 89 Issue 4, p257-262, 6p
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Hamilton, David Mike
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-6. 6p.
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A biographical essay about Jack London, with brief critical analysis of major works. [...
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-6. 6p.
A biographical essay about Jack London , with brief critical analysis of major works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Chronology of Jack London's Life.
A timeline is presented of significant events that happened during American author Jac...
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Chronology of Jack London's Life.
Critical Insights: Jack London. 2011, p365-368. 4p.
A timeline is presented of significant events that happened during American author Jack London's life, such as the birth of his daughter Joan on January 15, 1901, the publication of the book "The Call of the Wild" in 1903, and the publication of the books "The Scarlet Plague" and "The Star Rover" in 1915.
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: American Writers; January 2012, p1-1
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A biographical essay about Jack London, with brief critical analysis of major short fi...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: American Writers; January 2012, p1-1
A biographical essay about Jack London , with brief critical analysis of major short fiction works.
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Rollyson, Carl
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Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century. Jan2000, p1-3. 3p.
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London was one of the main exponents of American literary naturalism, a popular writer...
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Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century. Jan2000, p1-3. 3p.
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Quinn, Edna B.
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p.
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A biographical essay about Jack London. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p.
A biographical essay about Jack London . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Loveday, Veronica
Presents a biography of author Jack London. Background; Career as a fisherman and sai...
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Jack London. 8/1/2017, p1-2. 2p.
Presents a biography of author Jack London . Background; Career as a fisherman and sailor; Education at Berkeley College; How his experience during the Klondike Gold Rush inspired him to become a writer; Success of his famous novels 'Call of the Wild' and 'The Sea Wolf'; Highlights of his work as a traveling journalist; Later years and deteriorating health.
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The Call of the Wild Novel Study Guide
London, Jack;Saddleback Educational Publishing;London, Jack;Saddleback Educ...
Themes: Teacher's Resource Guide, Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Jack London, F...
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The Call of the Wild Novel Study Guide
2010
Themes: Teacher's Resource Guide, Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Jack London , Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books, Reproducible Activities. Thirty-five reproducible activities per guide reinforce basic reading and comprehension skills while teaching high-order critical thinking. Also included are teaching suggestions, background notes, summaries, and answer keys. The guide is digital; simply print the activities you need for each lesson. Timeless Classics--designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classic novels will grab a student's attention from the first page. Included are eight pages of end-of-book activities to enhance the reading experience.
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London’s radical political views and often gruesomely realistic portrayals of violence...
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Censorship (Ready Reference series). Apr1997, p1-1. 1p.
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Realism without falsity.
Hart, Jeffrey;Hart, Jeffrey
CliffsNotes on London's The Call of the Wild & White Fang
Umland, Samuel J.;London, Jack;Umland, Samuel J.;London, Jack
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, ...
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CliffsNotes on London's The Call of the Wild & White Fang
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.CliffsNotes on Call of the Wild & White Fang covers not one, but two of Jack London's best known adventures. Meet an amazing dog named Buck and his human friend John Thornton in Call of the Wild, and then follow the story of two men, Henry and Bill, and the life of an unforgettable wolf cub.This study guide will help you keep up with all of the action as you contemplate the characters and their motivations. Helpful background information about the author brings these novels into context for even greater understanding. Other features that help you study includeComplete character listsCharacter analyses of major playersCritical essaysReview questionsClassic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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Koger, Grove
Born into poverty and shaped by his experiences on America’s westernmost lands and wat...
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Identities & Issues in Literature. Sep1997, p1-1. 1p.
Born into poverty and shaped by his experiences on America’s westernmost lands and waters, London incorporated the latest European intellectual concepts into his fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Radical Jack London : Writings on War and Revolution .
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American Journalism. Winter2009, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p128-129. 2p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
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Lumsden, Linda
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American Journalism. Winter2009, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p128-129. 2p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
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The Radical Jack London : Writings on War and Revolution .
American Journalism. Winter2009, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p128-129. 2p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
The article reviews the book "The Radical Jack London : Writings on War and Revolution ,"edited by Jonah Raskin.
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DISCRETION AND THE RULE OF LAW: THE SIGNIFICANCE AND ENDURANCE OF VAGRANCY AND VAGRANCY-TYPE LAWS IN ENGLAND, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, AND THE BRITISH COLONIAL WORLD.
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Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. Spring2023, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p181-251. 71p.
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ROBERTS, CHRISTOPHER
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Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. Spring2023, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p181-251. 71p.
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This article explores the history of vagrancy laws in England, the British Empire, and...
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DISCRETION AND THE RULE OF LAW: THE SIGNIFICANCE AND ENDURANCE OF VAGRANCY AND VAGRANCY-TYPE LAWS IN ENGLAND, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, AND THE BRITISH COLONIAL WORLD.
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. Spring2023, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p181-251. 71p.
This article explores the history of vagrancy laws in England, the British Empire, and the British colonial world, the significance of those laws, the various challenges that were made to vagrancy laws in the twentieth century, and the limits of those challenges to date. While vagrancy laws preceded the nineteenth century, the 1824 Vagrancy Act in England set a new model, which proved extremely influential around the world over the following centuries. Between the early nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, vagrancy laws were adopted or reformulated almost everywhere the British left a footprint. The laws that were adopted covered a broad range of (what the authorities considered) offenses and offensive ways of being, including impoverishment, idleness, begging, hawking, public gambling, sex work, public indecency, fortune-telling, traditional religious practices, drunkenness, homosexuality, cross-dressing, socializing across racial groups, being suspicious, and many other activities as well. They were adopted for a range of purposes: to control labor and limit workers' bargaining positions, including after the abolition of slavery; to define the boundaries of civilized, industrious, and moral society; and to "clean up the streets" and reinforce urban boundaries. Most overarchingly, vagrancy laws served as a practical and rhetorical means through which the discretionary power of the authorities, as enforced through the police and magistracy, was expanded. Far from constituting an object of challenge for 'rule of law' advocates, expansion in such discretionary authority was closely bound up with the expansion of the rule of law in theory and practice. While vagrancy laws began to be challenged in the mid-twentieth century, including through a decades-long anti-vagrancy law campaign in the United States that had significant success, they remain part of the law of numerous states around the world. In addition, even where explicit vagrancy laws have been abolished, vagrancy-type laws--laws that have granted the police discretionary authority to commit arbitrary detention, of the poor in particular--remain deeply embedded in the criminal law regimes of all former British jurisdictions. Overcoming the vagrancy law legacy will require recognizing and taking measures to reform the arbitrary, classdiscriminatory police power vagrancy laws have helped entrench in common law legal orders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Unshackling Cities.
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University of Chicago Law Review. Sep2023, Vol. 90 Issue 5, p1365-1434. 70p.
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Cole, Felipe Ford
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University of Chicago Law Review. Sep2023, Vol. 90 Issue 5, p1365-1434. 70p.
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Scholars have long demonstrated that cities are constrained by states and the federal ...
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Unshackling Cities.
University of Chicago Law Review. Sep2023, Vol. 90 Issue 5, p1365-1434. 70p.
Scholars have long demonstrated that cities are constrained by states and the federal government in the exercise of their power. While important, the emphasis on these "vertical" constraints on cities does not account for the "horizontal" constraints on city power from private actors. This Article suggests that the emphasis on vertical constraints on city power is due to a misunderstanding of the history of local government law that describes its sole function as the vertical distribution of power between cities and different levels of government. I revise the history of Dillon's Rule, the doctrinal cornerstone of local government law's vertical distribution of power, by arguing that local government law also distributes public and private power, between private capital and cities. Correcting the historical misunderstanding helps to show how private power still shackles cities in their efforts to address important challenges. Dillon's Rule is a rule in local government law holding that localities wield only the powers expressly granted to them by states and no others. In this Article, I suggest that this view rests on a misinterpretation of the Rule's origins narrowly centered on nineteenth-century jurist John Forrest Dillon's hostility toward local power and his faith in state power. I put Dillon's Rule back into the historical path from which it emerged, the evolution of U.S. public debt and economic development in the nineteenth century. I argue that this new historical contextualization reveals that Dillon's Rule also distributes public and private power. Dillon and his Rule emerged during a critical moment in the evolution of U.S. public debt and economic development, after federal and state debt-financed economic-development projects failed, and localities took up the task. Iowa was the epicenter of local debt finance, and it was where Dillon, then a state court judge, saw a wave of defaults in the 1860s as evidence of cities' inherent wastefulness and susceptibility to public corruption. Dillon believed, left to their own devices, cities and their mismanagement of debt would repeatedly deprive creditors and investors of their property. In response, Dillon authored the doctrine that would become known as his Rule. But Dillon did not give states the task of disciplining fiscally irresponsible cities. The Rule's empowering of states was largely procedural. Dillon made cities fiscally powerless so that they could only borrow and spend in a narrow way that would convince municipal creditors that their debts would be repaid. This constraint on local power by private capital was at the core of the Rule's design. In closing, I explore the contemporary ramifications of the Rule's distribution of public and private power. Today, in the name of attracting and shielding capital against city power as Dillon intended, the Rule shackles cities to a limited range of market-consented options with which to address shortages in local economic development, affordable housing, and climate change. Critically, these burdens fall disproportionately on people of color. I argue that seeing the Rule in this new light should impact how we view the project of revitalizing city power moving forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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When Hay Was King: Energy History and Economic Nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States.
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American Historical Review; Mar2023, Vol. 128 Issue 1, p177-213, 37p
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Ron, Ariel
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American Historical Review; Mar2023, Vol. 128 Issue 1, p177-213, 37p
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Chinese Circulations : Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia
Eric Tagliacozzo;Wen-chin Chang;Eric Tagliacozzo;Wen-chin Chang
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and someti...
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Chinese Circulations : Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia
2011
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complexity. This collection of twenty groundbreaking essays foregrounds the commodities that have linked China and Southeast Asia over the centuries, including fish, jade, metal, textiles, cotton, rice, opium, timber, books, and edible birds'nests. Human labor, the Bible, and the coins used in regional trade are among the more unexpected commodities considered. In addition to focusing on a certain time period or geographic area, each of the essays explores a particular commodity or class of commodities, following its trajectory from production, through exchange and distribution, to consumption. The first four pieces put Chinese mercantile trade with Southeast Asia in broad historical perspective; the other essays appear in chronologically ordered sections covering the precolonial period to the present. Incorporating research conducted in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay, Indonesian, and several Western languages, Chinese Circulations is a major contribution not only to Sino-Southeast Asian studies but also to the analysis of globalization past and present.Contributors. Leonard Blussé, Wen-Chin Chang, Lucille Chia, Bien Chiang, Nola Cooke, Jean DeBernardi, C. Patterson Giersch, Takeshi Hamashita, Kwee Hui Kian, Li Tana, Lin Man-houng, Masuda Erika, Adam McKeown, Anthony Reid, Sun Laichen, Heather Sutherland, Eric Tagliacozzo, Carl A. Trocki, Wang Gungwu, Kevin Woods, Wu Xiao
