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Author Ayres, P. G. (Peter G.)

Title Shaping ecology : the life of Arthur Tansley / Peter Ayres
Published Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
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Contents Front Matter -- Kingley Vale: Worth Fighting For -- The Origins of Ecology -- George Tansley, Christian Socialism, and the Working Men's College -- Highgate School, University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge -- Teaching at University College, the Chicks, and Marriage to Edith -- Seashores and Woodlands: Looking for Patterns -- The Managing Director of British Ecology -- Disillusion and Disaffection -- The Oxford Years, 1927₆1937 -- The Magnum Opus, Grantchester, and Retirement -- The Years of Fulfilment, 1937₆1953 -- A Detached Liberal Philosopher and Free-Thinker -- References -- Index
Kingley Vale: Worth fighting for -- The origins of ecology -- George Tansley, Christian Socialism and the Working Men's College -- Highgate School, University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge -- Teaching at University College: The Chicks and marriage to Edith -- Seashores and woodlands: Looking for patterns -- The Managing Director of British Ecology -- Disillusion and disaffection -- The Oxford years, 1927-1937 -- The magnum opus, Grantchester and retirement -- The years of fulfilment, 1937-53 -- A detached liberal philosopher and free-thinker
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-205) and index
Notes Also available in printing
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject Tansley, A. G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1871-1955 -- Political and social views.
Tansley, A. G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1871-1955.
Field Studies Council (Great Britain) -- History.
Nature Conservancy (Great Britain) -- History.
Botanists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Ecologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Ecology -- Great Britain -- History.
Natural areas -- Great Britain -- History.
Nature conservation -- Great Britain -- History.
SUBJECT Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Environmental conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Wiley InterScience (Online service)
ISBN 1118290925 (electronic bk.)
9780470671542 (print)
9781118290927 (electronic bk.)
9781118290941 (electronic bk.)
OTHER TI Wiley online library