Exploring Central European History: A Wirth Institute Podcast with Joseph F. Patrouch
Wirth Institute
6 episodes
9 months ago
Starting in the 1890’s, countries around the world, including Spain, the US, and the British Empire, began a policy of interning populations considered potentially dangerous. Professor Patrouch outlines this context before concentrating on the internment camp system set up in Canada during the First World War in which thousands of men (and some women and children) from Austria-Hungary were incarcerated.
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Starting in the 1890’s, countries around the world, including Spain, the US, and the British Empire, began a policy of interning populations considered potentially dangerous. Professor Patrouch outlines this context before concentrating on the internment camp system set up in Canada during the First World War in which thousands of men (and some women and children) from Austria-Hungary were incarcerated.
The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873: Big Plans, not so big Results
Exploring Central European History: A Wirth Institute Podcast with Joseph F. Patrouch
35 minutes
5 years ago
The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873: Big Plans, not so big Results
Recently, the study of the various world’s fairs held around the globe starting in London in 1851 have attracted scholars’ attention. Professor Patrouch takes listeners on a virtual tour of the international exhibition held in Vienna in 1873, placing it in the context of an empire recently defeated in war and trying to regain some type of position on the world stage.
Exploring Central European History: A Wirth Institute Podcast with Joseph F. Patrouch
Starting in the 1890’s, countries around the world, including Spain, the US, and the British Empire, began a policy of interning populations considered potentially dangerous. Professor Patrouch outlines this context before concentrating on the internment camp system set up in Canada during the First World War in which thousands of men (and some women and children) from Austria-Hungary were incarcerated.
