The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past

R330.00

The animals in this landmark book – elephants, hippos, okapi, lions, jackals, cows, sheep, horses, white ants, quagga, Nazi cattle, police dogs and baboons – are chosen strategically to highlight different facets of our shared past. With this animal-centric lens, decades of research are brought together in an astonishing book, one that takes animals seriously.

The possibility of our shared future pivots on a reckoning with our shared pasts. This pioneering work shows what human-animal history can do, not only to help us better understand our place in the world, but to make our world – however slightly – a better place.

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Dimensions 235 × 155 × 30 mm
Author

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Sandra Swart is Professor and Chair of the Department of History
at Stellenbosch University. She received her DPhil in Modern
History from Oxford University in 2001, while simultaneously
obtaining an MSc (with distinction) in Environmental Change and Management, also at Oxford. She studies the socio-environmental history of southern Africa, with a
particular focus on the shifting relationship between humans and animals. She is an editor of the Brill book
series African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities, an editor of the South
African Historical Journal and past president of the Southern African Historical Society. Swart is the author
of Riding High – Horses, Humans and History in South Africa.
She lives in Stellenbosch with a large and happy herd. Two amongst them Rio, the most beautiful dog on
earth, and Kodiak, the naughtiest dog in the world.

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9781431433957

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