On civilization's edge : a Polish borderland in the interwar world

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On civilization's edge : a Polish borderland in the interwar world / Kathryn Ciancia. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021. - XV, [3], 343 stron : ilustracje, mapy ; 25 cm.

Author

Ciancia Kathryn Autor

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje naukowe

Subject

Nacjonalizm Polonizacja Żydzi Stosunki etniczne Polska Wołyń (Ukraina ; kraina historyczna)

Genre/Form

Opracowanie

Domain

Historia

Okres

d1918 d1939

O stosunkach etnicznych na Wołyniu i próbach integracji tego regionu z całym obszarem Rzeczypospolitej.

Recenzja: [On civilization's edge - recenzja] / Piotr J. Wróbel. W: Krakowskie Pismo Kresowe. R. 15 (2023), s. 199-201.

The history of world-spanning European imperialism may seem far removed from that of interwar Poland. Recently, Leny Urena Valerio, Piotr Puchalski, and others have sought to globalize Polish history by looking at the engagement of Polish travelers, merchants, scholars, and scientists with imperialist missions in Africa and South America. In On Civilization’s Edge, a study of “how modern nationalism operated in a contested region,” Kathryn Ciancia explores civilizing projects within the borders of interwar Poland. Her specific focus is interwar Poland’s eastern province of Volhynia, part of a larger region incorporated into the Russian Empire during the eighteenth-century Partitions of Poland. After World War I, the former Russian province was divided between a reborn Poland and the USSR. Ciancia succeeds in embedding Polish efforts to integrate this eastern borderland into the broader history of civilizing missions pursued by “empires” and “nation-states,” by liberal democracies, and by communist and fascist regimes in the modern period.

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Citation/references note

LCC online.

Summary, etc.

O stosunkach etnicznych na Wołyniu i próbach integracji tego regionu z całym obszarem Rzeczypospolitej.