The Lion's Historian

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Sandra Swart is a professor and chair of the Department of History at Stellenbosch University. She received her DPhil in modern history from Oxford University while simultaneously obtaining an MSc in environmental change and management, also at Oxford. She studies the socioenvironmental history of southern Africa, focusing on the shifting relationship between humans and animals.

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The Lion’s Historian offers a new way to understand history by considering animal cultures as inseparable from human history. Sandra Swart argues that animal sentience, agency, and cognition inflect the Anthropocene with a novel, usable past that offers more-than-human solutions to living in today’s world.