Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West /
"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,...
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press ,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Ukrainian history in context
- From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki : Middle East travel to 1800
- From the "Emir" to the Metropolitan : Middle East travel (1800-1914)
- Tatar slave raiding and Turkish captivity in Ukrainian history and legend
- Maksymovych and the national awakening
- Shamil, Shevchenko, and the chef-d'oeuvre, "The Caucasus" : a poem as seen from afar
- All about Ève : the realist Balzac's Ukrainian Dreamland
- La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks : Prosper Mérimée looks East
- Deciphering Rembrandt's Polish Rider
- Message to Mehmed : Repin creates his Zaporozhian Cossacks.