Description: Further DetailsTitle: Ukraine, the Middle East, and the WestCondition: NewEAN: 9780228005780ISBN: 9780228005780Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/15/2021Description: For decades, Ukrainian contacts with the outside world were minimal, impeded by politics, ideology, and geography. But prior to the Soviet period the country enjoyed diverse exchanges with, on the one hand, its Islamic neighbours, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire, and, on the other, its central and western European neighbours, especially Poland and France.Thomas Prymak addresses geographical knowledge, international travel, political conflicts, historical relations with religiously diverse neighbours, artistic developments, and literary and language contacts to smash old stereotypes about Ukrainian isolation and tell a vivid and original story. The book treats a wide range of subjects, including Ukrainian travellers in the Middle East, from pilgrims to the Holy Land to political exiles in Turkey and Iran; Tatar slave raiding in Ukraine; the poetry of Taras Shevchenko and the Russian war against Imam Shamil in the High Caucasus; Ukrainian themes and the French writers Honoré de Balzac and Prosper Mérimée; Rembrandt's mysterious painting today titled The Polish Rider; and Ilya Repin's legendary painting of the Zaporozhian Cossacks writing their satirical letter mocking the Turkish sultan.Drawing together political and cultural history, languages and etymology, and folklore and art history, Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West is an original interdisciplinary study that reintroduces Ukraine's long-overlooked connections beyond Eastern Europe.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: CAItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 159mmAuthor: Thomas M. PrymakGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West
Title: Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West
EAN: 9780228005780
ISBN: 9780228005780
Release Date: 05/15/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: CA
Book Title: Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Europe / Eastern, Folklore & Mythology
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 21.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Thomas M. Prymak
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
