A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, Second EditionFirst published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the country's history and uses new scholarship in order to expand our conception of the Ukrainian historical narrative. New chapters deal with the Crimean Khanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and new research on the pre-historic Trypillians, the Italians of the Crimea and the Black Death, the Karaites, Ottoman and Crimean slavery, Soviet-era ethnic cleansing, and the Orange Revolution is incorporated. Magocsi has also thoroughly updated the many maps that appear throughout. Maintaining his depiction of the multicultural reality of past and present Ukraine, Magocsi has added new information on Ukraine's peoples and discusses Ukraine's diasporas. Comprehensive, innovative, and geared towards teaching, the second edition of A History of Ukraine is ideal for both teachers and students. |
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... imperial state it represented encouraged the publication of works presenting a historical scheme that justified their existence. Among these works were the first two histories of Russia, by the eighteenth-century authors S.O. Mankeev ...
... imperial capital, she went on a mission of peace. Ol'ha was even accepted into the imperial fold, which became possible following her conversion to Christianity and adoption of a new name, Helena. This move not only enhanced Byzantine ...
... imperial rule. as for the original term Rus', it was really maintained only in ukraine's western lands, Galicia, Bukovina, and transcarpathia, all of which after 1772 were under austrian rule. the Greek Catholic Church in the austrian ...
... imperial purple (porphyrogenesis), who might be described more prosaically as someone of “blue blood.” Before the marriage could take place, volodymyr had to be baptized and agree to bring his entire realm into the Christian sphere of ...
... imperial capital, New Rome – Constantinople, or to trade with it and live within its culture and economic orbit. During its more than a thousand years of existence from the fourth to the mid-fifteenth century, the political fortunes of ...