Acknowledgments

The idea of this volume was first conceived on the sidelines of the conference on the imperial identities in Ukraine during the “long” eighteenth century held at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv in September 2017.

We are grateful to all editors who permitted our contributors to republish up­dated versions of the texts originally published in their journals and collective volumes in the present book.

Except for the articles originally published in English, the articles in the volume were translated by the late Marta Skorupsky, a brilliant translator and editor with a delicate feel for language, the meticulousness of a researcher, and the erudition of a scholar. Larysa Bilous edited all content, coordinated editorial consultations, implemented changes and revisions, and compiled the index. Peter Bejger skill­fully edited the manuscript. Dmytro Vortman expertly drew the maps.

We thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable and stimulating com­ments. We are grateful to Richard Ratzlaff of McGill-Queen’s University Press and Marko Stech of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press for their encouragement in completing this project.

For Volodymyr Sklokin, the completion of the work on the volume was made possible by the visiting fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna provided by Ukraine in European Dialog program.

The preparation of this volume was made possible by the generous support of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian In­stitute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Ukrainian Studies Fund, Inc., and the editors are pleased that the volume has been included in the Centre's Monograph Series.