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

School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury ar ...

, University of London. Byres was a founding editor of the ''

Journal of Development Studies A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period *Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...

'' (1964), the ''

Journal of Peasant Studies ''The Journal of Peasant Studies'', subtitled ''Critical Perspectives on Rural Politics and Development'', is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into the social structures, institutions, actors, and processes of change in ...

'' (1973) and ''

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'' (2001).Byres, Terence J., 1994. ‘The Journal of Peasant Studies: Its Origins and Some Reflections on the First Twenty Years’. In The Journal of Peasant Studies: A Twenty Volume Index 1973–1993, eds Henry Bernstein, Tom Brass and T.J. Byres, with Edward Lahiff and Gill Peace, 1–12. London: Frank Cass.

Selected publications

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

Festschrift

Bernstein, Henry and

Brass, Tom 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 Queens' College, Cambridge as their Dire ...

(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'')Meliczek, Hans(1999), Book Reviews. Development and Change, 30: 381–406.

External links

SOAS: Department of Economics: Professorial Research Associate Terry Byres

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Byres, Terry British sociologists Development specialists Living people Year of birth missing (living people)