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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sharon E. KingslandPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300267228ISBN 10: 0300267223 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 25 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsSharon Kingsland has provided a brilliant, incisive, and wonderfully original account of the development of our understanding of plant evolution in a physiological context. -Peter Raven, author of Driven by Nature: A Personal Journey from Shanghai to Botany and Global Sustainability An exceptionally thorough, readable and enjoyable study of plant science's embrace of the phytotron, unpacking its significance in the making of physiological ecology. -Dominic Berry, coeditor of Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800 A unique and wide-ranging history of the excitement, high expectations, big science, and interdisciplinary research in plant physiological ecology in the post-World War II era, which were kick-started by the development of the phytotron. -E. A. Johnson, University of Calgary “Sharon Kingsland has provided a brilliant, incisive, and wonderfully original account of the development of our understanding of plant evolution in a physiological context.”—Peter Raven, author of Driven by Nature: A Personal Journey from Shanghai to Botany and Global Sustainability “An exceptionally thorough, readable and enjoyable study of plant science’s embrace of the phytotron, unpacking its significance in the making of physiological ecology.”—Dominic Berry, coeditor of Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800 “A unique and wide-ranging history of the excitement, high expectations, big science, and interdisciplinary research in plant physiological ecology in the post–World War II era, which were kick-started by the development of the phytotron.”—E. A. Johnson, University of Calgary “An engaging narrative through historian’s eyes of the emergence of plant ecophysiology—an interplay of ideas, of careers and ambitions, and of phytotrons bringing people and disciplines together.”—Mark Westoby, Macquarie University Sharon Kingsland has provided a brilliant, incisive, and wonderfully original account of the development of our understanding of plant evolution in a physiological context. --Peter Raven, author of Driven by Nature: A Personal Journey from Shanghai to Botany and Global Sustainability An exceptionally thorough, readable and enjoyable study of plant science's embrace of the phytotron, unpacking its significance in the making of physiological ecology. --Dominic Berry, co-editor of Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800 Author InformationSharon Kingsland is professor emerita in the Department of History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of two previous books and has coedited two essay collections. She lives in Baltimore, MD. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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