Steven Watts

Biographic Data

ID3625484
NAMESteven Watts
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEWatts
SIGNATUREWATTS S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Missouri
ORCID0000-0001-6863-3953
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX3

  • Diabolical Doubt

    Open AccessSteven WattsARTICLEStudies in Church History2016References: 1

    Jordan of Saxony's Libellus , first produced in 1233, has struck scholars as an unwieldy combination of hagiography and early Dominican history. Compounding its somewhat awkward nature are its various jumps in chronology and idiosyncratic biographical asides. Perhaps the most idiosyncratic of them all is Jordan's lengthy account of Brother Bernard's demonic possession. While this account provides the setting for the institution of the Dominican c…

  • Pétition et démocratie. Les cas du Bas-Canada et du Maine, 1820-1840

    Open AccessSteven Watts, Steven Watt et al.ARTICLEBulletin d histoire politique2006Cited by: 1

    Pétition et démocratie. Les cas du Bas-Canada et du Maine, 1820-1840. An article from journal Bulletin d'histoire politique (Culture démocratique et aspirations populaires au XIXe siècle : la vie démocratique au quotidien), on Érudit

  • Unlawful Enemy Combatant

    M D M Maxwell, Steven Watts et al.ARTICLEJournal of International Criminal…2005Cited by: 2

    The Military Commissions Act of 2006 represents the United States’ most recent effort to establish a forum to try detainees captured in its ‘Global War on Terrorism’. This article briefly explores the Act's use of the term ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ to define both subject matter jurisdiction as well as the potential source of criminal liability. The article highlights the term's absence from the positive law of war as well as confusion over its l…

  • Power, Place and Identity

    Constance Backhouse, Tamara Myers et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1999Cited by: 3

  • The Magic Kingdom

    Michael Kammen, Steven WattsARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. By Steven Watts. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. xviii, 526 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-395-83587-9.) Get access Michael Kämmen Michael Kämmen Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1149–1150, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567347 Published: 01 D…

  • L'atavisme constitutionnel du gouvernement responsable

    Open AccessSteven Watts, Steven WattARTICLEBulletin d histoire politique1998

    Si le gouvernement responsable mrite l'intrt que les historiens conti, nuent de lui montrer, ce n'est pas seulement cause de l'impact qu'il a eu sur le droulement quotidien de la vie parlementaire qubcoise. Derrire les multiples aspects techniques du gouvernement responsable se cache un tout qui est plus grand que la somme de ses parties. Il est devenu un des grands tournants dans le rcit de l'volution du systme politique qubcois. Je m'intresse s…

  • The Romance of Real Life

    Shirley Samuel, Shirley Samuels et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1996

  • The Romance of Real Life

    Samuel F Pickering, Steven WattsARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1995

  • Walt Disney

    Steven WattsARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 5

    Journal Article Walt Disney: Art and Politics in the American Century Get access Steven Watts Steven Watts professor of history University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 84–110, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081916 Published: 01 June 1995

  • The Romance of Real Life

    Mary Kupiec Cayton, Steven WattsARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture. By Steven Watts. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xx, 246 pp. $35.95, ISBN 0-8018-4686-2.) Get access Mary Kupiec Cayton Mary Kupiec Cayton Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 705–706, https:/…

  • The Romance of Real Life

    Donald A Ringe, Steven WattsARTICLEAmerican Literature1995

  • The Apparition in the Glass

    Steven Watts, Bill ChristophersenARTICLEAmerican Literature1995

    Explores the ways in which Brown's novels reflected America during the 1790s - an America that was proud of its newly-achieved status as an independent republic, but was also plagued by post-revolutionary tensions. This study suggests that these tensions are the novels' latent subjects

  • Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace

    Steven Watts, Daniel A Cohen et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1994

  • Through a Glass Eye, Darkly

    Steven WattsARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1993

  • An American Profession of Arms

    Gene A Smith, William B Skelton et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1993

  • Jefferson's America, 1760-1815

    Steven Watts, Norman K RisjordARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1992

  • The Rise and Fall of the White Republic

    Steven Watts, Alexander SaxtonARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Alexander Saxton. (New York: Verso, 1990. x + 397 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-86091-271-X; paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-86091-986-2.) Get access The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Saxton Alexander. (New York: Verso, 1990. x + 397 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-86091-27…

  • 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…

  • Reply to the Critics

    Open AccessSteven WattsARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1992Cited by: 1

  • The Idiocy of American Studies

    Open AccessSteven WattsARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1991Cited by: 16

    A COMBUSTION OF THEORETICAL AND POLITICAL CONTROVERSY HAS ALways fueled development of Studies. In halcyon days of discipline in 1950s, pressures of cold war nationalism pushed it forward as a self-conscious search for myths and symbols that unified a genuinely culture. In late 1960s and early 1970s, intense agitation over civil rights, Vietnam war, poverty, and countercultural alternatives turned attention away from American character and focuse…

  • American Codes

    Open AccessRichard Moss, Richard J Moss et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1990

  • The Republic Reborn

    Steven WattsBOOKThe republic reborn1989

  • The Republic Reborn

    Sean Wilentz, Steven WattsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1989

  • The Republic Reborn

    Marcus Cunliffe, Steven WattsARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1988Cited by: 4

  • The Republic Reborn

    Roger H Brown, Steven WattsARTICLEJournal of American History1988