loppear reviewed My work is that of conservation by Mark D. Hersey (Environmental history and the American South)
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Bio of Carver emphasizing his connection to modernizing agricultural practices in the context of deep southern black poverty, and the historical context of land grant colleges, chemical fertilizers and state depts of agriculture, cash crop pressures, and the destructive to soil and humanity farming practices he finds in moving to an academic post at the fall line of Alabama, advocating for manure, compost, and soil improvement with a diversity of crops. A short chapter at the end covers the mythology of Peanuts and Devout Black Scientist that arises as his apparent legacy after his death.