Ukraine The Land And Its People An Introduction To Its Geography

In fact, before the Russian aggression in 2022, the name Ukraine meant nothing at all to many of us. To dispel this ignorance concerning “the second largest Slavic nation," this little book was already written in 1910 by the famous geographer of the University of Lemberg. He divides his discussion into two sections: the first a treatise on the physical geography of Ukraine, describing its geographic unity, its general topography, and giving detailed information concerning its streams, climate. flora, and fauna; the second, concerned with the Ukraine's anthropogeography, a clear and concise exposition of those national qualities which entitle the Ukrainians to an independent national existence. Such foundations for national independence are, in the words of the author, “independent anthropological characteristics: a distinct independent language; uniform historico-political traditions an aspirations, and independent culture, and a compact geographical territory." A general survey of the natural and industrial resources of Ukrainia, and a description of her districts and settlements conclude the discussion.

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There are few lands upon the whole globe so imperfectly known to geographic science as the one which we shall try to describe in this little work. The geographic concept of the Ukraine does not exist in the geography of today. Even the name has been almost forgotten in Europe in the course of the last century and a half. Only occasionally on some maps of Eastern Europe the name “Ukraine” shows timidly along the middle of the Dnieper. And yet it is an old name of the country, originating in the 11th Century, generally known thruout Europe from the 16th to the end of the 18th century, and then, after the abrogation of the autonomy of the second Ukrainian state, gradually fallen into oblivion. The Russian Government has determined to erase the old name of the land and the nation from the map of Europe. Little Russia, West Russia, South Russia, New Russia, were officially introduced in place of the old name Ukraine, the Austrian part of the Ukraine receiving the name of East Galicia. The people were named Little Russians, South Russians, Ruthenians, and all remembrance of the old name seemed to have been blotted out. But, in the speech of the people and in the magnificent unwritten popular literature of the nation, the name of the land could not be destroyed, and, with the unexpected rise of Ukrainian literature, culture, and a feeling of national political independence in the 19th Century, the name Ukraine came into its own again. Today there is not an intelligent patriotic Ukrainian who would use another name for his country and nation than Ukraine and Ukrainian, and, slowly, these designations are penetrating foreign lands as well. The Ukraine is the land in which the Ukrainian nation dwells—a great solid national territory embracing all the southern part of Russia in Europe, besides East Galicia, Northwest Bukowina and Northeast Hungary. This district is a definite geographic unit. A discussion of its exact boundaries shall be reserved for the anthropogeographical part of this book. A division of Europe into natural regions almost invariably stops at Eastern Europe. While all the other portions of our globe have long been the object of the most detailed classification, Eastern Europe remains, as before, an undivided whole. To be sure, there have been many attempts at classification, but they are all based upon a non-geographical point of view. Only the Baltic provinces and Poland are, in their present political extent, regarded as possible geographic units.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... List of Books on the Ukraine I. GENERAL WORKS. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Atlas Climatologique de l'empire de la Russie. Petersburg 1900 (Russian). Atlas geologiczny Galicyi. Cracow 1882 ff. (Polish). Beauplan. Description de 1'Ukraine. Rouen 1660. Bonmariage. La Russie d'Europe. Brussels 1903. Brockhaus-Efron. Enciklopedicheski Slavar. Petersburg, 1st ed. beginning 1890. 2nd ed. in course of publication. Carte geologique internationale de l'Europe. Berlin. D IV, D V E IV, E V, F IV, F V. Dokutchaev. The Russian Steppes. Petersburg 1893. Encyklopedia Polska. Vol. I, Cracow 1912. (Polish). Friederichsen. Methodischer Atlas zur vergleichenden Landerkunde von Europa. Part I, Hannover 1914. Guide des excursions du VII Congres geologique internationale. Petersburg 1897. Geologicheski Komity6t. Carte geologique generate. Petersburg 1897 ff. Karpinsky. Ubersicht der phys.-geogr. Verhaltnisse Russlands wahrend der verflossenen geologischen Perioden. Beitrage zur Kenntnis des russischen Reichs. 1887.--Sur les mouvements de l'ecorce terrestre dans la Russie d'Europe. Annales de Geographie. 1895-6. Kehnert & Habenicht. Map of Russia (Scale: 1--3,700,000) in Stieler's Handatlas. No. 46, 47, 48, 49. Kohl. Reisen in Sudrussland. Berlin 1841. Krassnov-Voyeykov. Russland (In: Kirchhoff's Landerkunde von Europa, jVol. Ill, Leipzig 1907). Krassnov. Travyanye styepi syevyernavo polyshdryia. Moscow 1894. (Russian). Murchison, de Verneuil, Keyserling. Geology of Russia. Petersburg 1846. Osterreichisch-ungarische Monarchic in Wort und Bild. Wien 1877 ff. tTbersichtsband. Galizien, Bukowina. Philippson. Landeskunde des europaisohen Russlands nebst Finnlands. Leipzig 1908.--Geographische Reiseskizzen aus Russland. Zeitschrift der Gesell schaft fur Erdkunde. Berlin 1898...

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First 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.