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Boycotts Past and Present

From the American Revolution to the Campaign to Boycott Israel

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Editors:
  1. David Feldman

    1. Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College – University of London, London, UK

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  • Situates boycotts historically to show how they have changed over time, from the late eighteenth century to the present
  • Explores how such boycotts have intersected with Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism, especially in the twentieth century
  • Provides genuinely interdisciplinary insights, with perspectives from legal scholars and political scientists

Part of the book series: Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism (PCSAR)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Boycotts: From the American Revolution to BDS

    • David Feldman
    Pages 1-19

  3. Consumer Boycotts in Modern History: States, Moral Boundaries, and Political Action

    • Frank Trentmann
    Pages 21-39

  4. In Defense of the Nation: Protectionism and Boycotts in the Habsburg Lands, 1844–1914

    • Michael L. Miller
    Pages 41-52

  5. The Enemy Within: The Anti-Jewish Boycott and Polish Right-Wing Politics in the Early Twentieth Century

    • Grzegorz Krzywiec
    Pages 53-71

  6. Zionist “Buy National” Campaigns in Interwar Palestine

    • Hizky Shoham
    Pages 73-95

  7. Picketing Jewish-Owned Businesses in Nazi Germany: A Boycott?

    • Christoph Kreutzmüller
    Pages 97-113

  8. Boycott Campaigns of the Radical Left in Cold-War West Germany

    • Alexander Sedlmaier
    Pages 115-138

  9. “The Onward March of a People Who Desire to Be Totally Free”: The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott

    • Derek Charles Catsam
    Pages 139-156

  10. The United Farm Workers Union and the Use of the Boycott Against American Agribusiness

    • Lori A. Flores
    Pages 157-174

  11. Sanctions Against South Africa: Myths, Debates, and Consequences

    • Yehonatan Alsheh
    Pages 175-196

  12. Sanctioning Apartheid: Comparing the South African and Palestinian Campaigns for Boycotts, Disinvestment, and Sanctions

    • Lee Jones
    Pages 197-217

  13. A Collision of Frames: The BDS Movement and Its Opponents in the United States

    • Sina Arnold
    Pages 219-241

  14. The British Summer of 2014: Boycotts, Antisemitism, and Jews

    • Dave Rich
    Pages 243-259

  15. Palestine: Boycott, Localism, and Global Activism

    • Philip Marfleet
    Pages 261-286

  16. The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement and Radical Democracy

    • John Chalcraft
    Pages 287-310

  17. Moral-Historical Questions of the Anti-Israel Boycott

    • Jeremy Krikler
    Pages 311-331

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 333-352
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About this book

In this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the  eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles against British rule in the American colonies, against racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights movement, and Apartheid in South Africa, today it is Israel that is the focus of a campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). 


Boycotts have featured in campaigns undertaken by labour, consumer and nationalist movements. Jews were the focus of some boycotts instigated by nationalist movements in Central and Eastern Europe and Jewish businesses were targeted by the National Socialist regime in Germany. In this collection, contributors explore the history of past boycott movements and examine the different narratives put forward by proponents and opponents of the current BDS movement directed against Israel: one which places the movement within a history of struggles for ‘human rights’; the other which regards BDS as the latest manifestation of an antisemitic tradition. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College – University of London, London, UK

    David Feldman

About the editor

David Feldman is Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Previous publications include Integration, Disadvantage and Extremism co-edited with Ben Gidley (2014) and Reconstruction in Europe After the Second World War (2011) co-edited with Mark Mazower and Jessica Reinisch. 

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