A Laboratory of Transnational History

Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-963-9776-43-2
Verlag: CEU Educational-Service Non-profit LLC.

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Central European University Press

A first attempt to present an approach to Ukrainian history which goes beyond the standard 'national narrative' schemes, predominant in the majority of post-Soviet countries after 1991, in the years of implementing 'nation-building projects'. An unrivalled collection of essays by the finest scholars in the field from Ukraine, Russia, USA, Germany, Austria and Canada, superbly written to a high academic standard. The various chapters are methodologically innovative and thought-provoking. The biggest Eastern European country has ancient roots but also the birth pangs of a new autonomous state. Its historiography is characterized by animated debates, in which this book takes a definite stance. The history of Ukraine is not written here as a linear, teleological narrative of ethnic Ukrainians but as a multicultural, multidimensional history of a diversity of cultures, religious denominations, languages, ethical norms, and historical experience. It is not presented as causal explanation of 'what has to have happened' but rather as conjunctures and contingencies, disruptions, and episodes of 'lack of history.'

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kasianov, Georgiy

Ther, Philipp

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Georgiy Kasianov, Philipp Ther, National versus Transnational History, II. Ukrainian History Rewritten, About the Contributors,Index

Über Autor(innen)

Georgiy Kasianov is Head of the Department of Contemporary History and Politics at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is an author, co-author and co-editor of more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine in the 19th–21th centuries.

Philipp Ther teaches modern European history at the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute (Florence).