The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. By Douglas H. Johnson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $54.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

This is one of the most sober books about the Sudan conflict I have ever read. Unlike most scholars who study the civil war in that country as a revolting occurrence, Douglas Johnson accepts it as a matter of fact and history, referencing the American Civil War, "the war of ten thousand nasty incidents" (p. xx). To level the field for this cool-headed approach, the author takes issue with representations of the war by the media, humanist lobbies, and ...

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