TY - GEN T1 - A laboratory of transnational history : Ukraine and recent Ukrainian historiography A2 - Kasʹi͡anov, H. V. (Heorhiĭ Volodymyrovych), 1961- A2 - Ther, Philipp LA - English PP - Budapest ; New York PB - Central European University Press YR - 2009 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn317551846 AB - 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.' OP - 310 CN - DK508.46 .L33 2009eb SN - 9781441603906 SN - 1441603905 SN - 9786155211553 SN - 6155211558 SN - 1283248158 SN - 9781283248150 SN - 9786613248152 SN - 6613248150 SN - 9789639776265 SN - 9639776262 KW - Ukraine : Historiography. KW - Ukraine : History. KW - Ukraine : Histoire. KW - HISTORY. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Russia & the Former Soviet Union. KW - Historiography KW - Ukraine KW - Geschichtsschreibung KW - Geschiedschrijving. KW - Oekraïne. KW - Ukraine. KW - Historiography, History, Language policies, Nationalism, Russian Empire, Ukraine, World War II. KW - History ER -