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The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott. He had served in the British Army 39th Foot , which brought him to Ireland.
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Arthur Boycott (1877-1938), British pathologist and naturalist; Charles Boycott (1832–1897), a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave rise to the word boycott; Clare Boycott (born 1993), English cricketer; Sir Geoffrey Boycott (born 1940), English cricketer; Rosie Boycott, Baroness Boycott (born 1951 ...
SA paramilitaries outside a Berlin store posting signs with: "Deutsche!Wehrt Euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden!" ("Germans!Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!"). The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses (German: Judenboykott) in Germany began on April 1, 1933, and was claimed to be a defensive reaction to the anti-Nazi boycott, [1] [2] which had been initiated in March 1933. [3]
The boycott began in March 1933 in both Europe and the US and continued until the entry of the US into the war on December 7, 1941. [13] [14] [15] By July 1933, the boycott had forced the resignation of the board of the Hamburg America Line. German imports to the US were reduced by nearly a quarter compared with the prior year, and the impact ...
An anti-boycott, counter-boycott, or buycott is the excess buying of a particular brand or product in an attempt to counter a boycott of the same brand or product. Anti-boycott measures could also be in the form of laws and regulations adopted by a state to prohibit the act of boycott among its citizens.