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History of Ukraine: general

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A History of Ukraine: The Land and its Peoples

Paul Robert Magocsi

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010 (2nd edn)
ISBN 9781442610217

A survey of developments that have taken place during the past two and a half millennia on the territory encompassed by the boundaries of contemporary Ukraine.

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Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation

Serhy Yekelchyk

New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
ISBN 978-0-19-530545-6, 978-0-19-530546-3 (pbk)

The first Western survey of Ukrainian history to include coverage of the Orange Revolution and its aftermath, this book narrates the deliberate construction of a modern Ukrainian nation, incorporating new Ukrainian scholarship and archival revelations of the post-Communist period.

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Unmaking Imperial Russia. Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History

Serhii Plokhy

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005
ISBN 0802039375

The book examines how the eminent Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky constructed a new historical paradigm that brought about the nationalisation of the Ukrainian past and established Ukrainian history as a separate field of study. By showing how the ‘all-Russian’ historical paradigm was challenged by the Ukrainian national project, Plokhy provides the indispensable background for understanding the current state of relations between Ukraine and Russia.

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The Ukrainians. Unexpected Nation

Andrew Wilson

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000 (1st edn)
ISBN 0-300-08355-6 (1st edn, cloth)

A guide to modern Ukraine, concentrating on the complex relationships between Ukraine and Russia, beginning with the myth of common origin in the early mediaeval era, then looking closely at the Ukrainian experience under the Tsars and Soviets, the path to independence in 1991 and the history of Ukraine since 1991.

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Borderland. A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

Anna Reid

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997
ISBN 0-297-81818-X

The book explores Ukraine's struggle to build itself a national identity, an identity that faces up to a bloody past and embraces all the peoples within its borders.

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Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine. An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995

Ralph Lindheim and George S. N. Luckyj (eds)

Toronto - Buffalo - London: University of Toronto Press in association with the Shevchenko Scientific Society, Inc, 1996
ISBN 0-8020-0871-2 (cloth), 0-8020-7855-9 (paper)

A collection of major Ukrainian documents, dating from 1710 to 1995, in which leading Ukrainian writers, scholars, intellectuals, political figures and statesmen present their views on Ukrainian history, especially as it pertains to relations with Russia. The texts reflect the transformation of Ukraine into the modern nation that declared its independence in 1991.

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Ukraine Between East and West. Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century

Ihor Ševčenko

Edmonton - Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1996
ISBN 1-895571-14-6 (cl), 1-895571-15-4 (pb)

A collection of essays, covering the period between the introduction of Christianity to Kyiv and the early 18th century, aiming to single out the significant factors that have contributed, within that time span, to the cultural make-up of people living on Ukrainian territory today.

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Ukrainian Economic History: Interpretive Essays

Iwan S. Koropeckyj

Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1991
ISBN 978-0920862728

A collection of essays dealing with important issues in Ukrainian economic history, covering the periods of Kyivan Rus, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the nineteenth century.

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Ukraine: A History

Orest Subtelny

Toronto - Buffalo - London: University of Toronto Press, 1988
ISBN 0-8020-5808-6

A survey of Ukraine's history from the earliest times to the 1980s. Each of five main periods is portrayed in terms of its social, economic and cultural aspects, as well as its political history.

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Essays in Modern Ukrainian History

Ivan L. Rudnytsky

Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1987
ISBN 0-920862-47-0

The English-language essays of Ivan Rudnytsky, a leading historian of modern Ukraine noted for his original interpretations. Taken together the essays present a coherent view of Ukrainian history since the 17th century.

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Ukraine: A Historical Atlas

Paul Robert Magocsi

Toronto - Buffalo - London: University of Toronto Press, 1985
ISBN 0-8020-3428-4 (cloth), 0-8020-3429-2 (paper)

A collection of 24 maps providing a chronological illustration of developments in Ukraine from the earliest times to the 1980s. Each map is accompanied by a brief commentary describing the events that occurred during the period depicted.

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Rethinking Ukrainian History

Edited by Ivan L. Rudnytsky with the assistance of John-Paul Himka

Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1981
ISBN 0-920862-12-8 (bound), 0-920862-14-4 (pbk.)

A collection of presentations to the Ukrainian Historical Conference held at the University of Western Ontario in May 1978, together with a record of a round table discussion at the conference on problems of terminology and periodisation in the teaching of Ukrainian history.

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The Ukraine. A History

W. E. D. Allen

Cambridge: University Press, 1941

An overview of the history of Ukraine from the Middle Ages to 1940.

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The Ukraine. Reprint of a lecture on Ukrainian history and present-day political problems

Bedwin Sands (pseudonym of George Raffalovich)

London: Francis Griffiths, 1914