“Road Map” of the Colonization of the Ukrainian Carpathians

Abstract

The review describes the main provisions and conclusions of Myroslav Dnestryansky's monograph on the role of multifaceted colonial movements in the settlement of the Ukrainian Carpathians during the 13th - first half of the 19th centuries. It is concluded that, based on the analysis of various sources, the author of the monograph substantiated the hypotheses regarding the mechanisms of settlement, the influence of the migration structure on the formation of ethnographic differences of the Ukrainian population of the Carpathians and the differentiation of the settlement network of different parts of the region, the processes of social stratification of mountain residents of the Ukrainian Carpathians. It is argued that the peer-reviewed work is clearly structured, has a proper academic and scientific argumentation, and its architectonics testifies to the author's use of modern methodological approaches to the historical and geographical prerequisites for the settlement of the Ukrainian Carpathians, the periodization of the formation of a solid network of settlements in the Carpathian localities, peculiarities of settlement of this part of modern Ukraine. It is suggested that peer-reviewed work should be seen as a kind of introduction to the broader, scientific sense of the problem of the study of colonization narratives in historical and political science retrospect, which has significant social sound.