| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Mansel G. Blackford. Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959–2000. (Development of Western Resources.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2001. Pp. xiii, 277. $35.00.

Maui is a microcosm of the tourist industry in the United States. The island's hotel and condominium rooms more than tripled between 1970 and 1980, as the disposable incomes of Americans and Japanese increased, and as jet airplanes made the Hawaiian Islands accessible to the world. This book by Mansel G. Blackford analyzes how political, business, and environmental leaders shaped and reacted to Maui's transition from an economy based on sugar cane and pineapple to one based on travel and recreation. It also shows how competing groups of Maui residents debated the trade-offs between development and environmental protection. 1

The great virtues of the book are its skillful blend of political, economic, environmental, and cultural history; its thorough and extensive scholarship; its fair-mindedness; and its careful attention to Maui's most important business and environmental leaders, as well as to grass-roots political activists. The book makes a strong case for treating the Hawaiian Islands as part of the continental American West rather than as a tropical outpost of the United States. The focus is local; the implications and significance are regional, national, and even international. For example, Maui's recent history provides a case study of the relationship between "center" and "periphery" that will interest world systems scholars. . . .

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