Ukraine : an illustrated history / Paul Robert Magocsi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magocsi, Paul R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukraine--History.

Ukraine.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2007]

Summary:

Ukraine is Europe?s second-largest state. Roughly the size of Germany and Great Britain or the states of Arizona and New Mexico combined, it shares borders with seven countries and in 2001 had a population of more than 48 million. This lavishly illustrated volume provides a concise and easy-to-read historical survey of the country from earliest times to the present. Each of the book?s forty-six chapters is framed by a historical map, which graphically depicts the key elements of the chronological period or theme addressed within. In addition, over 300 historic photographs, line drawings, portraits, and reproductions of books and works of art bring the rich past of Ukraine to life. Rather than limiting his study to an examination of the country?s numerically largest population ? ethnic Ukrainians ? acclaimed scholar Paul Robert Magocsi emphasizes the multicultural nature of Ukraine throughout its history. While ethnic Ukrainians figure prominently, Magocsi also deals with all the other peoples who live or who have lived within the borders of present-day Ukraine : Russians, Poles, Jews, Crimean Tatars, Germans (including Mennonites), and Greeks, among others. This book is an indispensable resource for European area and Slavic studies specialists and is sure to appeal to people interested in having easy access to information about political, economic, and cultural developments in Ukraine .

Contents:

Ukraine's physical geography

Ukraine's political and human geography

Greeks and Scythians

Khazars

The original homeland of the Slavs

Trade routes in Eastern Europe in the eighth to tenth centuries

Kievan Rus' : its formation and consolidation

Kievan Rus' : its disintegration

The Mongol invasions

The Golden Horde and Italian merchants

Galicia-Volhynia and the end of Kievan Rus'

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus', and Samogitia to 1569

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after 1569

Socioeconomic relations in Ukrainian lands, 1569-1648

Religion and culture in Ukrainian lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Tatars and Cossacks

Zaporozhia

The Khmel'nyts'kyi uprising of 1648

The Cossack state

Ukrainian lands during the period of ruin, 1657-1686

Mazepa and the Cossack hetmanate

Sloboda Ukraine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Zaporozhia and southern Ukrainian lands in the eighteenth century

The right bank and western Ukraine in the eighteenth century

The partitions of Poland, 1772-1795

Ukrainian lands in the Russian empire in the nineteenth century

Socioeconomic developments in Dnieper Ukraine in the nineteenth century

The peoples of Dnieper Ukraine in the nineteenth century

Ukrainian lands under Habsburg rule, 1772-1914

The peoples in Ukrainian lands under Habsburg rule, 1772-1914

Western Ukraine during World War I

Revolution in Dnieper Ukraine, 1917-1918

War, social upheaval, and anarchy in Dnieper Ukraine, 1919-1920

Western Ukrainian lands, 1918-1919

Ukrainian lands after World War I

Soviet Ukraine in the interwar years

Soviet Ukraine's other peoples

Soviet Ukraine : economic transformation and the great famine

Ukrainian lands in interwar Poland

Ukrainian lands in interwar Romania and Czechoslovakia

Carpatho-Ukraine, 1938-1939

World War II and western Ukrainian lands, 1939-1941

Ukrainian lands during World War II, 1941-1944

World War II : the military struggle for Ukrainian lands

Soviet Ukraine after World War II

From Soviet Ukraine to independent Ukraine.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780295987231

0295987235

OCLC:

85899078