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Grass: In Search of Human Habitat is the eleventh volume in the University of California Press’s series Organisms and Environments, whose unifying themes are the diversity of plants and animals, the ways they interact with each other and their surroundings, and the implications of those relationships for science and society. We seek books that promote unusual, even unexpected connections among seemingly disparate topics, and that are distinguished by the talents and perspectives of their authors. Previous volumes have spanned topics as diverse as ethnobiology and lizard evolution, but none has so directly and synthetically addressed our relationships with nature as this one.
Joe Truett’s poignant, measured prose chronicles the life and times of a class of habitats that once occupied large swaths of North America. He conjures up wall-to-wall blue skies and endless grass, describes the transformative effects of prairie fire and millions of large herbivores. He explores cultural and economic factors that propel wholesale conversion of grasslands for production of cereals and livestock. Grass is thus about both our past and our future. At one level it provides scholarly yet easily accessible answers to a series of related questions: What are grasses? Where are they found and why? How do other inhabitants interact with the dominant vegetation? And over the long haul—from bipedal apes on Pliocene savannas, through prehistoric origins of agriculture, to the water-sucking golf courses and manicured lawns of today’s big cities—how have we occupied, utilized, and re-created grasslands?
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