| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States. Ed. by Max Page and Randall Mason. (New York: Routledge, 2004. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $96.95, ISBN 0-415-93442-7. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-415-93443-5.)
Max Page and Randall Mason, whose scholarship spans the fields of history, architecture, and historic preservation, asked ten other authors—some of whom are fellow scholars and some of whom are nonacademic preservation professionals—to write essays that bear upon the history of historic preservation in the United States. Two of the contributors offer international commentary as well.	1
The editors state that the essays were collected in an effort to expand both the output and the conceptual sweep of scholarship pertaining to the history of historic preservation. They lament that preservation practitioners are all too often ignorant regarding the history of their own movement, which, if one judges by its rhetoric and, indeed, by its very nomenclature—historic preservation—should be grounded in historical consciousness. While saluting the important mid-twentieth-century scholarship of Charles Hosmer, Page and Mason argue that Hosmer's work on the preservation movement is dated and in some respects myopic.	. . .

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