Boycotts Past and Present

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 target of boycotts advanced by various national movements in Central and Eastern Europe and the anti-Jewish boycotts instigated by the Nazis. 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.

Auteur
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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

1. Boycotts From the American Revolution to BDS; David Feldman2. Consumer Boycotts in Modern History: States, Moral Boundaries and Political Action; Frank Trentmann3. In Defense of the Nation: Protectionism and Boycotts in the Habsburg Lands, 1844-1914; Michael L. Miller4. The Enemy Within: The Anti-Jewish Boycott and Polish Right-Wing Politics in the Early Twentieth Century; Grzegorz Krzywiec5. Zionist Buy National Campaigns in Interwar Palestine; Hizky Shoham6. Picketing Jewish-Owned Businesses in Nazi Germany: A Boycott?; Christof Kreuzmueller7. Boycott Campaigns of the Radical Left in Cold-War West Germany; Alexander Seidlmeier8. 'The Onward March of a People Who Desire to be Totally Free': The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott; Derek Charles Catsam9. The United Farm Workers Union and the Use of the Boycott Against American Agribusiness; Lori A. Flores10. Sanctions Against South Africa: Myths, Debates and Consequences; Yehonatan Alsheh11. Sanctioning Apartheid: Comparing the South African and Palestinian Campaigns for Boycotts, Disinvestment and Sanctions; Lee Jones12. A Collision of Frames: The BDS Movement and its Opponents in the United States; Sina Arnold13.The British Summer of 2014: Boycotts, Antisemitism and the Jews; Dave Rich14. Palestine: Boycott, Localism and Global Activism; Philip Marfleet15. The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement and Radical Democracy; John Chalcraft16. Moral-Historical Questions of the Anti-Israel Boycott; Jeremy Krikler.