GRE Reading Comprehension: JiJing 352-GRE阅读机经352篇 - 4187MXU5659T7RR6K

An Irish newspaper editorial encouraging women to participate in the non-importation movement launched in Ireland in 1779 appears consistent with a perception that the political use of the consumer boycott originated in North America and spread eastwards across the Atlantic to Ireland. This is a view that most historians have concurred with. For example, T.H. Breen argued that the consumer boycott was a brilliantly original American invention. Breen did acknowledge that a few isolated boycotts may have taken place in other countries. However, Mary ODowd argues that from the late seventeenth century, Irish political discourse advocated for the non-consumption of imported goods and support for home manufactures by women in ways that were strikingly similar to those used later in North America.