| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.4

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Book Review

A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823–2000. By Alice Garner. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. ix + 286 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.

This splendid book presents an engaging and sympathetic account of the multiple transformations experienced by a small French coastal town, Arcachon, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a story tinged with a certain pathos, as we watch the seemingly inexorable decline of fishing as a livelihood starting during the latter decades of the 1800s —a profession of hardy folk and picturesque customs pushed aside by the gradual emergence of tourism as the primary factor in the local economy. Alice Garner expertly guides us through this slow but wrenching social and economic shift, laying out the human costs and the cultural resistances to change, alongside the legal, technological, and political factors through which the changes came about.

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