Although O.Lattimore often mentioned the Ukrainian Cossacks on the margins of his numerous works, William Hardy McNeill introduced Ukraine in the comparative frontiers studies for the first time in the American historiography as a special field. The last third part focuses on a case of Ukraine. The next part examines the achievements of the comparatives frontiers’ approach. Contrary to the consequences of the strong criticism of Turner’s thesis, the latter approach continues to influence the studies of many countries rather in terms of Owen Lattimore on the frontier as the zone of intensive interaction between distinct cultures (first introduced in 1940 in his masterpiece on the Chinese frontiers) than those of Turner.

The first introducing part shortly presents the development of the frontier thesis reception in the USA. One can treat it as a preliminary study to the problem of the frontier thesis application in the history of Ukraine. The updated version of the open lecture given at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University on February 15, 2008.

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