Terence J. Byres is a peasant studies scholar and a professor emeritus of Political Economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...

, University of London. Byres was a founding editor of the Journal of Development Studies (1964), the Journal of Peasant Studies

Journal of Peasant Studies

The Journal of Peasant Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into the social structures, institutions, actors, and processes of change in the rural areas of the developing world. It was established in 1973 with Terence J...

 (1973) and Journal of Agrarian Change

Journal of Agrarian Change

The Journal of Agrarian Change is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2001 covering agrarian political economy. The journal covers historical and contemporary studies of the social relations and dynamics of production, power relations in agrarian formations and ownership structures and...

 (2001).

Selected publications

• Byres, T.J. (1996) Capitalism From Above and Capitalism From Below. An Essay in Comparative Political Economy. London: Macmillan.

Festschrift

Bernstein, Henry

Henry Bernstein (sociologist)

Henry Bernstein is a professor of at the University of London: School of Oriental and African Studies. He has worked for many years on social theory, peasant studies, the political economy of agrarian change, and the maize economy and land reform in South Africa...

 and Brass, Tom

Tom Brass

Tom Brass is an academic who has written widely on peasant studies. For many years he was at the University of Cambridge as an affiliated lecturer in their Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and at at Queen's College, Cambridge as their Director of Studies of the Social and Political...

(Eds)(1996) Agrarian Questions: Essays in Appreciation of T.J.Byres (Library of Peasant Studies), Routledge (A collection of nine essays was prepared to mark the 60th birthday of Terry Byres)

External sites

• SOAS: Department of Economics: Professorial Research Associate Terry Byres