Book Reviews by Michael Kevane
(last updated Sept. 2004)

on Sudan (these have appeared in various issues of the Sudan Studies Association newsletter)

• Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian
  Sudan, (University of California Press, Berkeley) by Heather Sharkey
• Root Causes of Sudan's Civil War, 2003, (London: James Currey) by Douglas Johnson
  
• Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of the Abuja Conferences, 1992-93, University Press of America, Lanham, MD 2000, by Steven Wondu and Ann Lesch 
  
• The Sudan: Contested National Identities, Indiana University Press, 1998, by Ann Lesch.
  
• On Trek in Kordofan: The Diaries of a British District Officer in the Sudan , 1931-1933 edited by M.W. Daly, Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1994, by C.A.E. Lea.
  
• Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl as told to Virginia Lee Barnes and Janice Boddy, New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
• Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, New York: William Morrow, 1999.
  
• Imperial Echoes: The Sudan - People, History & Agriculture, Arthur Staniforth Oxford: Worldview Publishing, 2000.
• Politics and Islam in Contemporary Sudan, Abdel Salam Sidahmed: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996
• National Integration and Local Integrity, Gerd Baumann: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1987

• Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village, 1991, (New York: Columbia University Press) by Victoria Bernal

 

on Development Economics

• Reflections on Human Development, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, Pp. 252, by Mahbub ul Haq.
  
• Commodities in Crisis: The Commodity Crisis of the 1980s and the Political Economy of International Commodity Policies (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992), by Alfred Maizels.
  
• Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997, by  by Yujiro Hayami.
  
• Development Microeconomics, Bardhan, Pranab, and Udry, Christopher.  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999, 242 pp.
  
• Making a Living in Rural Sudan" Production of Women, Labour Migration of Men, and Policies for Peasants’ Needs, Elke Grawert,  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
  
• Fieldwork in Developing Countries, Devereux, S. and Hoddinott, J. 1992.  (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf).