My work is that of conservation [electronic resource] : an environmental biography of George Washington Carver / Mark D. Hersey.
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TextSeries: Environmental history and the American South | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xv, 290 p., [10] p. of plates :) ill., mapContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780820339658
- 0820339652
- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 -- Political and social views
- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943
- Environmental protection -- Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) -- History
- African American farmers -- Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) -- History
- Agricultural conservation -- Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) -- History
- Conservationists -- Southern States -- Biography
- African American scientists -- Biography
- African American agriculturists -- Biography
- Agriculturists -- United States -- Biography
- Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.) -- Environmental conditions
- 630.92 B 22
- S417.C3 H47 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Macon County, Alabama, 1896 -- Were it not for his dusky skin -- The earnest student of nature -- The ruthless hand of Mr. Carenot -- In a strange land and among a strange people -- Teaching the beauties of nature -- Hints and suggestions to farmers -- The peanut man -- Divine inspiration -- Where the soil is wasted -- Epilogue: My work is that of conservation.
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