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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... province of Russia or Poland, but rather as an independent country deriving from Kievan times. Ukraine attained its greatest heights during the Cossack era, and it began to decline only in the eighteenth century after coming ...
... province (headed by a metropolitan). Missionary activity began as early as 990, and although there was often fierce local resistance to the new faith, seven new eparchies (Kiev, volodymyr-volyns'kyi, Bilhorod, Chernihiv, Polatsk, Tura ...
... provinces would be held only by nobles who were natives of the province, and (4) agreement that only a person of Polish and of non-royal blood could become a starosta, or royal governor of one of the twenty-three most important castles ...
... provincial and district governors (voievodas and starostas). The situation of the Orthodox Rus' in Galicia was less favorable, especially after 1387 when Hungary and Lithuania gave up their claims and recognized the province to be part ...
... province included the eastern shore of the Straits of Kerch and the fortress of Azak. The rest of the peninsula was ... provinces of Rumelia and Anatolia. And whenever the Ottomans needed troops from the Crimea, they sent an “invitation ...