单选题 .  ①An Irish newspaper editorial encouraging women to participate in the nonimportation 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. ②This is a view that most historians have concurred with. ③For example, T H Breen argued that the consumer boycott was a brilliantly original American invention. ④Breen did acknowledge that a few isolated boycotts may have taken place in other countries. ⑤However, Mary O'Dowd argues that from the late seventeenth century, Irish political discourse advocated the nonconsumption of imported goods and support for home manufactures by women in ways that were strikingly similar to those used later in North America.25.  The passage is primarily concerned with ______