Harry L Watson

Biographic Data

ID1051405
NAMEHarry L Watson
GIVEN NAMESHarry L
FAMILY NAMEWatson
SIGNATUREWATSON H L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX3

  • The Field of Blood

    Open AccessHarry L Watson, Harry WatsonARTICLEJournal of American History2019Cited by: 3

    Why was the Civil War so brutal? Why, after decades of patriotic parades, congratulatory speeches, fulsome toasts, and paeans to liberty and union, did Americans spring at each other's throats in 1861, soon to kill one another by the hundreds of thousands? Joanne B. Freeman has tackled these old questions with new insight and energy through a set of smaller, prior questions: Why were American congressmen so violent in the decades before the war i…

  • Chasing the American Dream

    William M Rohe, Harry L WatsonBOOKChasing the American Dream2007

    Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an important public policy goal for more than a century. In recent years there has been a clear shift of emphasis among policymakers from a focus on providing affordable rental units to providing affordable homeownership opportunities. Due in part to programs introduced by the Clinton and Bush administrations, the nation's homeownership rate is currently …

  • Liberty and power

    Harry L WatsonBOOKLiberty and power2006Cited by: 15

  • The American South in a Global World

    Kathryn A Sloan, J Peacock et al.ARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2006

    Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicit…

  • The American Party Battle

    Harry L Watson, Joel H SilbeyARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

    The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876. Volume 1, 1828-1856. Volume 2, 1854-1876. Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 284. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-674-02645-4; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-02642-X; Pp. xxvi, 272. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-674-02646-2; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-02643-8.) Half a century ago, claptrap was the most popular academ…

  • Humbug? Bah! Altschuler and Blumin and the Riddle of the Antebellum Electorate

    Harry L WatsonARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article Humbug? Bah! Altschuler and Blumin and the Riddle of the Antebellum Electorate Get access Harry L. Watson Harry L. Watson specialist in Jacksonian politics and society University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 886–893, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953084 Published: 01 December 1997

  • New Perspectives on the Early Republic

    Harry L Watson, Ralph D Gray et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996

  • The Jacksonian Promise

    Harry L Watson, Daniel FellerARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996

  • The Common Rights of Mankind

    Harry L WatsonARTICLEJournal of American History1996Cited by: 2

    Journal Article “The Common Rights of Mankind”: Subsistence, Shad, and Commerce in the Early Republican South Get access Harry L. Watson Harry L. Watson professor of history University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 13–43, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945473 Published: 01 June 1996

  • The Venturous Conservative Reconsidered

    Harry L Watson, Marvin MeyersARTICLEReviews in American History1994

  • From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South

    Harry L Watson, Joseph P ReidyARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1993

  • Liberty and Power

    Richard B Latner, Harry L WatsonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • The Market and Its Discontents

    Harry L WatsonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1992

    of the New Light persuasion. While The Market Revolution succeeds better than any other work in relating the Era of Good Feelings to Jacksonian Democracy, it may have placed undue stress on democratic insurgency and not enough emphasis on concerns over slavery. Struck by the force of unexpected events and interacting personalities, some scholars will question the view that the policies of the Jackson presidency represented a logical unfolding of …

  • The Market Revolution

    Steven Watts, Charles Sellers et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846. By Charles Sellers. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. viii + 502 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-503889-4.) and Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America. By Harry L. Watson. (New York: Noonday, 1990. xii + 274 pp. Paper, $9.95, ISBN 0-374-52196-4.) Get access Steven Watts Steven Watts University of Missouri Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…

  • Republicanism Meets the Market Revolution

    Lawrence Frederick Kohl, Harry L WatsonARTICLEReviews in American History1991

  • The Politics of Individualism

    Harry L Watson, Lawrence Frederick KohlARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1990

  • Agrarians' & `Aristocrats

    Harry L Watson, John AshworthARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1987

  • Conflict and collaboration

    Harry L WatsonARTICLESocial History1985Cited by: 5References: 21

    (1985). Conflict and collaboration: Yeomen, slaveholders, and politics in the antebellum South. Social History: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 273-298

  • Parties Count

    Harry L Watson, Joel H SilbeyARTICLEReviews in American History1985

  • An Independent People

    Edward Byers, Harry L WatsonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1984

  • The Transformation of Political Culture

    Harry L Watson, Ronald P FormisanoARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1984Cited by: 12

  • Affairs of Party

    Harry L Watson, Jean H BakerARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1984

  • The Politics of Economic Development in the Antebellum South

    Jeannie Oakes, James Oakes et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1984

  • Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict

    Whitman H Ridgway, Harry L WatsonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1983

  • Olive Branch and Sword--The Compromise of 1833

    Harry L Watson, Merrill D PetersonARTICLEJournal of American History1983Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Olive Branch and Sword—The Compromise of 1833. By Merrill D. Peterson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. xi + 132 pp. Notes and index. $15.00.) Get access Harry L. Watson Harry L. Watson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 967–968, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901219 Publ…