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Where Misfits Fit

Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks

By: Thomas Michael Kersen

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Where Misfits Fit

Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks

By: Thomas Michael Kersen

Winner of the 2021 Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award from Mid-South Sociological Association All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American culture. Studying the Ozarks offers the ability to explore American life through the lens of one of the last remaining cultural frontiers in American society. Perhaps because the Ozarks were relatively isolated from mainstream American society, or were at least relegated to the margins of it, their identity and culture are liminal and oftentimes counter to mainstream culture. Whatever the case, looking at the Ozarks offers insights into changing ideas about what it means to be an American and, more specifically, a special type of southerner. In Where Misfits Fit: Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks, Thomas Michael Kersen explores the people who made a home in the Ozarks and the ways they contributed to American popular culture. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Kersen argues the area attracts and even nurtures people and groups on the margins of the mainstream. These include UFO enthusiasts, cults, musical troupes, and back-to-the-land groups. Kersen examines how the Ozarks became a haven for creative, innovative, even nutty people to express themselves—a place where community could be reimagined in a variety of ways. It is in these communities that communitas, or a deep social connection, emerges. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a facet of the Ozarks, and Kersen often compares two or more cases to generate new insights and questions. Chapters examine real and imagined identity and highlight how the area has contributed to popular culture through analysis of the Eureka Springs energy vortex, fictional characters like Li’l Abner, cultic activity, environmentally minded communes, and the development of rockabilly music and near-communal rock bands such as Black Oak Arkansas.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496835441

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Complete Plays and Poetry of Thomas Middleton (Delphi Classics)

By: Thomas Middleton

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Complete Plays and Poetry of Thomas Middleton (Delphi Classics)

By: Thomas Middleton

The Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as one of the most successful and prolific playwrights of his time. Middleton achieved equal success in comedy and tragedy, producing a diverse range of dramatic and poetic works. This comprehensive eBook presents Middleton’s complete plays and poetry, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Middleton’s life and works * Concise introductions to the famous plays * All 32 plays, with individual contents tables * Includes rare attributions, available in no other collection * Images of how the plays were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the play texts * Features Middleton’s complete poetry – available in no other collection * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes a special ‘Glossary of Elizabethan Language’, helping your comprehension of rare words and phrases * Features two biographies - discover Middleton’s medieval life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Plays THE PHOENIX BLURT, MASTER CONSTABLE THE HONEST WHORE, PART I MICHAELMAS TERM A TRICK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY TIMON OF ATHENS THE FAMILY OF LOVE THE PURITAN THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY YOUR FIVE GALLANTS ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL THE BLOODY BANQUET THE ROARING GIRL NO WIT, NO HELP LIKE A WOMAN’S THE SECOND MAIDEN’S TRAGEDY A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE WIT AT SEVERAL WEAPONS MORE DISSEMBLERS BESIDES WOMEN THE WIDOW THE WITCH A FAIR QUARREL THE OLD LAW HENGIST, KING OF KENT WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN MEASURE FOR MEASURE ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE THE CHANGELING THE NICE VALOUR THE SPANISH GYPSY A GAME AT CHESS The Poetry THOMAS MIDDLETON’S POEMS The Biographies THOMAS MIDDLETON by Algernon Charles Swinburne INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS MIDDLETON by A. H. Bullen Glossary of Elizabethan Language Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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Delphi Classics

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178656016X

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9781786560162

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By: Dorothy Thomas

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By: Dorothy Thomas

American English edition. "e;See it, say it."e; Easy-to-use guide to Dutch for complete beginners. Pictures show users what to say and how to say it, covering a wide range of tourist situations from hotels and self-catering to shopping, bars and restaurants, travel, visiting the doctor and making friends. Also includes an extensive menu guide and two-way dictionary, plus a brief grammar section showing how the language fits together. All Instant books are written in collaboration with native speakers.

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Dot Publications

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0957302819

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Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

Pegolotti’s Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context

By: Thomas Sinclair

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Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

Pegolotti’s Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context

By: Thomas Sinclair

At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing the toll stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods (from China, India and Iran) towards Europe was compiled, and later incorporated in the well-known trading manual of the Florentine bank official Pegolotti; Pegolotti was twice stationed in the city of Famagusta in Cyprus, which lay opposite the city of Ayas where the land route ended. The Il-Khanid capital, Tabriz in Iran, attracting expensive merchandise such as spices and silk from a variety of origins, was the road’s starting-point. To demonstrate the importance of the route in its own time, parallel and contemporary routes in the Black Sea and the Levant are traced and the effect of trade on their cities noted. To compare the Ayas itinerary (1250s to 1330s) with previous periods the networks of commercial avenues in the previous period (1100-1250) and the subsequent one (1340s to 1500) are reconstructed. In each period the connection of east-west trade with the main movements of the European economy are fully drawn out, and the effects on the building history of the three main Italian cities concerned (Venice, Genoa and Florence) are sketched. Attention then turns to the Pegolotti itinerary itself. The individual toll stations are identified employing a variety of means, such as names taken from the Roman itineraries (Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary) and archaeological data; this allows the course of the track to be followed through diverse topography to the city of Sivas, then across plains and through passes to Erzurum and finally to Tabriz. A picture is drawn of the urban history of each major city, including Sivas, Erzurum and Tabriz itself, and of the other towns along the route.

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Routledge

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1000752674

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Where Misfits Fit

Where Misfits Fit

Complete Plays and Poetry of Thomas Middleton (Delphi Classics)

Complete Plays and Poetry of Thomas Middleton (Delphi Classics)

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Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

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