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Book SynopsisThomas M. Prymak uses the essays and articles he has written over the past thirty years as a historian of Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian history to reflect on the evolution of ethnic studies in Canada and the United States.
Trade Review'This collection will be highly useful addition to the library of any scholar or student who is seeking to understand the often complex historiography of Ukrainian and Slavic studies.' -- Jim Mochoruk Manitoba History Journal number 80 spring 2016 'This well-written volume is worth-while for those interested in emigration and immigration history. It is also good window into the ethnic dynamics of Canada's Prairie Provinces.' -- Kurt K. Kinbacher Great Plains Quarterly, winter 2016
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction EMIGRATION STUDIES 1. The Great Migration: East Central Europe to the Americas in the Literatures of the Slavs: Some Examples 2. A Little-known Book from the Late Soviet Period on the Economic Emigration from Imperial Russia to Western Europe and North America, 1880-1914 3. Ivan Franko and Large Scale Ukrainian Economic Emigration to Canada before 1914 4. A Polish Scholar on Polyethnic Emigration from the Republic of Poland to Canada Between the Wars HISTORY, HISTORIANS, AND OTHERS 5. Dmytro Doroshenko and Canada 6. General Histories of Ukraine Published in English During the Second World War: Canada, the United States, and Britain 7. George W. Simpson, the Ukrainian Canadians, and the 'Pre-history' of Slavic Studies in Canada 8. The Post-Secondary Teaching of the 'History of Ukraine' in Canada: An Historical Profile 9. Ukrainian Scholarship in the West During the 'Long Cold War' 10. Lubomyr Wynar and the Ukrainian Historical Association in the United States and Canada. 11. In the Shadow of a Political Assassination: Gabrielle Roy's 'Stephen' and the Ukrainian Canadians LIBRARY STUDIES AND REFERENCE WORKS 12. Inveterate Voyager: J.B. Rudnyckyj on Ukrainian Culture, Books, and Libraries in the West during the 'Long Cold War' 13. Scholarship on Mykhailo Hrushevsky during the Early 1980s: Ukrainian Books and Libraries in Canada and the United States 14. Ukrainian Canada in the Encyclopedias, 1897-2010: An Historical Overview CONCLUDING THOUGHTS 15. Ukrainian Canadians and Ukrainian Americans: Some Reflections and Comparisons Appendix: Publishing Histories Index
