On civilization's edge : a Polish borderland in the interwar world / Kathryn Ciancia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ciancia, Kathryn, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polonization--Ukraine--Volhynia--History--20th century.

Polonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

At the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish 'civilizers' - from border guards and urban planners to teachers and military settlers - descended upon a poor, war-torn, and multi-ethnic borderland that had previously been part of the Russian empire. 'On Civilization's Edge' examines how fears of national weakness, competitions for local power, and mounting anxieties about the rise of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union set the stage for Polish statesmen to assert their right to rule over the region's ethnic minorities.

Contents:

A Conversation

On the Edge, In the World

Democracy as Civilizing Mission

The Integration Myth

The Many Meanings of the Border

Polish Towns? Jewish Towns?

Depoliticizing the Volhynian Village

Regionalism, or The Limits of Inclusion

Thinking Technocratically.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-006748-9

0-19-006746-2

0-19-006747-0