Ukraine and Ukrainians

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Among the Ukrainians

Peter Shirt

The Laundry Press, 2010
ISBN 978-0-9565129-0-1

A journey to Ukraine’s cities and regions — by rail, road, and river — to meet ordinary people who offer extraordinary insights into their lives. Written by an Englishman who settled in Ukraine in 2005.

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Historical Dictionary of Ukraine

Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich

Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005
ISBN 0-8108-5387-6

A compendium of articles covering Ukrainian history from ancient times to the present, emphasising the modern period. The dictionary contains 700 entries on population, geography, economy, politics, and culture; descriptions of institutions, cultural monuments, political parties, battles and wars; and biographical sketches of key individuals in politics, the arts and sciences, the church, and the military. The work also includes maps, a comprehensive chronology of Ukrainian history and an extensive  bibliography of English-language writings on Ukraine.

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Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the World

Ann Lencyk Pawliczko (ed)

Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press, 1994
ISBN 0-8020-0595-0 (cloth), 0-8020-7200-3 (paper)

Examines Ukrainian communities in virtually all countries of their settlement, as well as in their mother country, addressing topics such as demographic and social characteristics, history of immigration and settlement, social and political life, major concerns of Ukrainians as an ethnic group, and ties with Ukrainians in other countries.

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Encyclopedia of Ukraine

Volodymyr Kubijovyč (Vols. 1, 2) and Danylo Husar Struk (Vols. 3, 4, 5) — editors-in-chief

Published under the auspices of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta), the Shevchenko Scientific Society (Sarcelles, France) and the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies

Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press,
1984-1993 (in 2001 an additional volume containing an Index and Errata was published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)

ISBN 0-8020-3362-8 (Vol. 1, A-F), 0-8020-3444-6 (Vol. 2, G-K), 0-8020-3993-6 (Vol. 3, L-Pf), 0-8020-3994-4 (Vol. 4, Ph-Sr), 0-8020-3995-2 (Vol. 5, St-Z), 0-8020-3362-8 (Map & Gazetteer), 1-895571-37-5 (Index and Errata).

The most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine, its history, people, geography, economy and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora. Contains over 15,000 entries. Based on research conducted largely before Ukraine's 1991 declaration of independence.

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Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia

Volodymyr Kubijovyč — editor-in-chief

Prepared by the Shevchenko Scientific Society; Published for the Ukrainian National Association (USA)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963-1971
ISBN 0-8020-3105-6 (Vol. 1), 0-8020-3261-3 (Vol. 2)

A reference work on all aspects of Ukraine from the earliest times to the time of publication, structured according to 21 major subject areas.

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Ukraine and its People

I. Mirchuk (ed)

Munich: Ukrainian Free University Press, 1949

A handbook of general information on Ukraine a Ukrainian encyclopaedia in miniature.

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Ukraine and its People

Hugh P. Vowles

London and Edinburgh: Chambers, 1939

Covers the geography, history, religion, language and literature of Ukraine, as well as "the problem of national minorities".

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A Description of Ukraine

Guillaume Le Vasseur, Sieur de Beauplan

(translation and annotations by Andrew B. Pernal and Dennis F. Essar)

Cambridge MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1993
ISBN 0-916458-44-X

This 17th-century description of Ukraine by Beauplan stands out as one of the earliest and most colourful of the Western European descriptions of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Cossacks. An English translation of the original French text (Description d'Ukranie) with reproductions of the original illustrations.