Laura started following the work of 2 people.
Laura followed the research interest: Irrigation
Laura started following the work of 3 people.
Faculty Member, History
Associate Professor and Chair
Idaho State University
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Laura Woodworth-Ney's current book is a cultural history of the irrigation movement and of irrigated settlement projects between 1870 and 1927. Her work explores the ways booster clubs, commercial clubs, irrigation promoters, irrigation organizations, irrigation entrepreneurs, the Reclamation Service, and women's clubs envisioned and articulated a distinct urban identity for irrigation settlement in the arid United States West. She uses architecture, literature, photography, town design and booster writing to examine nineteenth- and early twentieth-century attitudes about federal power, land use, water rights, and gender politics. The movement that created one of the world's great irrigated societies has much to reveal about the linkages between perceptions and constructions of landscape and the impact of humans on climate.
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