Interwar Salzburg is a beautiful volume on a neglected and fascinating subject. Dassanowsky and Arens are just the right people to bring this world to light, and their introduction is elegantly written to draw interwar Salzburg 'out of the shadows of the wreck of the Empire.' The essays collected here provide an impressive array of thoughtful understandings of this small city that was hard to see from Vienna-as it still is a century later. They aim at alternative historical narratives of Austria and Europe, in an effort to restore Europe's peripheries to national narratives and European histories.

David S. Luft, Horning Endowed Chair in the Humanities Emeritus, Oregon State University, USA

Interwar Salzburg makes a case for Austria's 'second city' as a dynamic cultural space that worked to forge a modern, post-Habsburg Austrian and European identity after the upheavals of the First World War. This volume assembles an impressively interdisciplinary team of leading scholars who provide diverse perspectives on what it meant to be in, of, and from Salzburg between the wars. The essays
collected here offer compelling models of local and regional history that insist we think beyond national histories and the political and financial metropolises that that typically dominate those histories.

Todd Herzog, Professor of German and Film Studies, University of Cincinnati, USA