... of boycotting, Andrew Phemister takes the reader through a history of social regulation that existed in many agrarian societies, “where social obligation and disapproval constituted its own moral economy.” The increasingly visible phenomenon of boycotting presented a novel but systematic challenge to liberal...

...Andrew Phemister The development of the practice of boycotting during the Irish Land War (1879–82), and its subsequent spread beyond Ireland to the United States, sparked outrage and concern. This was prompted by the specific intellectual challenges the practice posed for liberals on both sides...