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America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation Book

America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation
America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation, It is high time that a historian analyzed the role of the Antiquities Act of 1906 as a tool for historic preservation. This story is replete with heroes and villains (or at least obstructionists). It is a judicious view of the debates over the fate of ou, America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation has a rating of 4 stars
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America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation, It is high time that a historian analyzed the role of the Antiquities Act of 1906 as a tool for historic preservation. This story is replete with heroes and villains (or at least obstructionists). It is a judicious view of the debates over the fate of ou, America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation
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  • America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation
  • Written by author Hal Rothman
  • Published by University Press of Kansas, December 1994
  • "It is high time that a historian analyzed the role of the Antiquities Act of 1906 as a tool for historic preservation. This story is replete with heroes and villains (or at least obstructionists). It is a judicious view of the debates over the fate of ou
  • With the stroke of a pen, Theodore Roosevelt created the Grand Canyon National Monument in 1908. Without his quick action, commercial developers, already coveting this national treasure, would have invaded the canyon's floor. Not until eleven years later
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Map
Abbreviations
1The Sequoia Stone Dish Incident1
2Pothunters and Professors6
3The Antiquities Act34
4The First Monuments52
5"Warning Sign" Preservation74
6Second-Class Sites89
7Boss Pinkley's Domain119
8Turf Wars140
9The New Deal and the National Monuments162
10History and the National Monuments187
11The Antiquities Act and the Modern Park System212
Appendix: Chronology of National Monument Establishment233
Bibliographic Essay241
Index247


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