This introduction has two functions. It provides a historiography of boycotts, buycotts and consumer activism in a global context and it summarizes the articles in this special issue. The historiography shows that the literature has been dominated by American scholars, who have mainly focused on the experience of the United States. In fact boycotts, buycotts and consumer activism have had a global dimension since the term ‘boycott’ was first devised in Victorian Ireland. The introduction synthesizes the American orientated literature with that which looks at the non-American experience. Themes outlined in this introduction are dealt with in more detail in the articles of this special issue.
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Buchanan, Tom.2008. Attempts to impose a consumer boycott of Japan in Britain during the later 1930s. Paper delivered at the CHORD Workshop ‘Consumer and trade boycotts in the twentieth century’ , University of Wolverhampton, January 2008 (in Richard Hawkins’ possession).
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Fershtman, Chaim and Gandal, Neil.1998. The effect of the Arab boycott on Israel: The automobile market. Rand Journal of Economics29(1): 193-214.
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Freund, Ernst.1906. On the legality of a boycott in Germany. Journal of Political Economy14 (9): 573-574.
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Glickman, Lawrence B.2005. ‘Make Lisle the style’: The politics of fashion in the Japanese silk boycott, 1937-1940. Journal of Social History38(3): 573-608.
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Glickman, Lawrence B.2009. Buying power: A history of consumer activism in America . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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Gottlieb, Moshe.1968. The First of April Boycott and the reaction of the American Jewish Community. American Jewish Historical Quarterly57(4): 516-556.
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Gottlieb, Moshe.1973. The Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States: An ideological and sociological appreciation. Jewish Social Studies35(3-4): 198-227.
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Haberland, Michelle.2008. ‘Look for the Union Label’: Organizing women workers and women consumers, 1948-1985. Paper delivered at ‘Boycott and Embargo: The Political Uses of Economic Power in the Twentieth Century’ conference, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, October 2008 (in Richard Hawkins’ possession).
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Haberland, Michelle. Forthcoming. Striking beauties: Garment workers in the United States South, 1937-1980. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
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Hawkins, Richard A.1994. The Hawaiian economy in the 1930s: The successful adjustment of an American Territory to the Great Depression. The Journal of American and Canadian Studies2: 47-67.
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Hawkins, Richard A.2007. ‘Hitler’s Bitterest Foe’: Samuel Untermyer and the Boycott of Nazi Germany, 1933-1938. American Jewish History93(1): 21-50.
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Holmes, Michael S.1972. The Blue Eagle as ‘Jim Crow Bird’: The NRA and Georgia’s black workers. Journal of Negro History57(3): 276-283.
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Ishii, Kazuya.2001. The socioeconomic thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi: As an origin of alternative development. Review of Social Economy59(3): 297-312.
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Itatsu, Yuko.2008. Japan’s Hollywood boycott movement of 1924. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television28(3): 353-369.
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Losman, Donald L.1972. The Arab boycott of Israel. International Journal of Middle East Studies3(2): 99-122.
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Muraskin, William.1972. The Harlem boycott of 1934: Black nationalism and the rise of labor-union consciousness. Labor History13(3): 361-373.
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New York Times (NYT). 21 Jun. 1892. Chinamen are angry: The Geary bill may result in the boycott of American goods, 5.
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New York Times (NYT). 25 Mar. 1933. Move for boycott gaining in London, 10.
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New York Times (NYT). 1 Apr. 1933. French prepare to boycott German goods in sympathy with Jewish victims of Nazis, 10.
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New York Times (NYT). 4 Apr. 1933. French Jews to press boycott till Reich ends discrimination, 12.
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New York Times (NYT). 20 Sept. 1935. Netherland firms vote Nazi boycott, 3.
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New York Times (NYT). 13 Jun. 1937. Interfaith boycott of Germany urged, 31.
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New York Daily Tribune (NYDT). 27 April 1888 . Arbitrating on the Beer War: Both sides of the difficulty: The strikers’ leaders charged with anarchist sympathies, 5.
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New York Daily Tribune (NYDT). 28 Apr. 1888 . The boycott investigation: State arbitrators arbitrating: The cross-examination of Secretary Herbrandt takes up another day, 5.
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New York Daily Tribune (NYDT). 29 Apr. 1888 . Boycott leaders on the rack: To be indicted for conspiracy: Investigating the brewery troubles before the State Board of Arbitration, 2.
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Palestine Post. 12 Nov. 1933. Jamal Effendi’s Boycott Call, 5.
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