On Civilization's Edge

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On Civilization's Edge is written by Kathryn Ciancia and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190067470 (ISBN 10) and 9780190067472 (ISBN 13).

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.