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Irrigation's Militant Evangelist Irrigation's Militant Evangelist
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Irrigation and the Homemaicer Irrigation and the Homemaicer
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From Homemaking to Homecrofts From Homemaking to Homecrofts
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Reclamation as Welfare Reclamation as Welfare
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3 Reclaiming the Home: George H. Maxwell and the Homecroft Movement
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Published:April 2007
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on George H. Maxwell and his campaign for land reclamation and irrigation as forms of social engineering through homemaking. It examines the main ideas of Maxwell's concept of the home on the land, or what he called a “homecroft,” including his emphasis on the garden and arts and crafts, the frontier as the answer to the salvation of the cities from degeneracy and decay, and the construction of guildhalls as part of social reform. Maxwell complemented his rhetoric on the nature of the parks movement with the decentralization of the city-planning movement. The chapter also discusses the National Irrigation Association's emphasis on the business benefits of homemaking in the West and proposed alternatives to homemaking, along with the significance of the Reclamation Act of 1902 to Maxwell's family ideal in relation to other social welfare reforms. Finally, it highlights the role of women in Maxwell's reclamation project.
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