Henry Bernstein is a professor of at the University of London: 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...

. 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. He was for many years co-editor with Professor Byers of 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...

 finishing this post 2000 and then became the founding editor, again with Byers, of the 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...

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Selected publications

Bernstein, Henry (1973) Underdevelopment and Development: Third World Today (Penguin education)

Bernstein, Henry (1992) Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses, Oxford University Press

Bernstein, Henry and Brass, Tom (Eds)(1996) Agrarian Questions: Essays in Appreciation of T.J.Byres (Library of Peasant Studies), Routledge

Bernstein, Henry (2000) "The Peasantry" in Global Capitalism: Who, Where and Why. Merlin Press (London), pp. 25-51

Bernstein, Henry (2010) Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies), Kumarian Press