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America's National Monuments - Politics of Preservation (Paperback)
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America's National Monuments - Politics of Preservation (Paperback)
Series: Development of Western Resources
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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
did Congress make it a national park, an act that provided funds
for development and preservation unavailable to national monuments.
According to Hal Rothman, the designation of national
monument--decided at the discretion of the president--was the
saving grace for many natural and archaeologically significant
sites as debates on national park designations languished in
Congress. But lacking sufficient financial backing, national
monuments inevitably ended up taking a back seat to the national
park system in the early twentieth century. Looking at the history
of the national monuments, from the passage of the Antiquities Act
of 1906--allowing for presidential designation of monuments--to the
present, Rothman traces the evolution of federal preservation. He
shows how laws, policies, personalities, personal and bureaucratic
rivalries, and a changing cultural climate affected preservation
efforts. And he illustrates how the national park system has
functioned and changed over the years as public officials have
tried to implement federal policy at the grassroots level. The
Antiquities Act, he contends, has been undervalued and ignored by
contemporary observers and historians. In fact, he demonstrates, it
is the most important piece of preservation legislation ever
enacted by the U.S. government. Without it, many significant sites
would have been destroyed as a result of congressional inertia and
indifference. Rothman examines the evolution of this vital
legislation, originally designed to preserve archaeological sites
in the Southwest but later also used to maintain other significant
prehistoric, historic, and natural features. He explains how the
act became less significant as New Deal financing became available
for the park system in the 1930s; how expansion and reorganization
of the National Park Service brought more money and status to
national monuments; and how, by the 1960s, national monuments had
been integrated into the modern management system for park areas.
Set in the context of the regulatory century, this book offers
important new insights about how the American past has been
preserved and packaged for the public.
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