| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. By Connie Y. Chiang. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xviii, 282 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-98831-3.)

On the shores of Monterey, California, land and ocean meet. In this community, people—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, Anglo, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Portuguese—likewise met, mingled, and clashed. Fishing and tourism had emerged as Monterey's two economic pillars by the late nineteenth century, and these two industries often conflicted, pointing to different futures for the community and its abundant natural resources. In Shaping the Shoreline, Connie Y. Chiang uses this diverse community and its divergent industries to craft an excellent environmental history. Yet this is not merely a history of Monterey, tourism, or the fishing industry. It is a history of the complex and often-hidden relationship between labor and leisure in America. In Monterey—and many other places—the boundaries drawn between labor and leisure obscure underlying connections that tie human societies to nature and link us to each other. In highlighting those connections, Shaping the Shoreline gains significance far beyond Monterey.

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