On Civilization's Edge —— A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World

----- 文明的边缘:两次世界大战之间的波兰边疆

ISBN: 9780190067458 出版年：2020 页码：369 Ciancia, Kathryn Oxford University Press

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.