Amy Thompson McCandless

Biographic Data

ID5712722
NAMEAmy Thompson McCandless
GIVEN NAMESAmy Thompson
FAMILY NAMEMcCandless
SIGNATUREMCCANDLESS A T
AFFILIATIONSCollege of Charleston
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • American Academic Cultures

    Open AccessAmy Thompson Mccandle, Amy Thompson McCandlessARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    American Academic Cultures is a multifaceted social history of higher education in the United States. Paul H. Mattingly, professor emeritus of history at New York University, contends that the evolution of colleges and universities from the colonial era to the present closely correlates with the dominant ideologies of seven “generations” of academic cultures and each generation's concomitant assumptions about the nature and roles of higher educat…

  • The Rise of Thomas Cromwell

    Open AccessAmy Thompson McCandlessARTICLEJournal of History2016

    "The Rise of Thomas Cromwell: Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII by Michael Everett." Canadian Journal of History, 51(2), pp. 356–357

  • Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women

    Open AccessAmy Thompson McCandlessARTICLEJournal of History2015

    Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South, by Blain Roberts. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 384 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Blain Roberts' examination of beauty pageants, beauty parlours, and beauty ideals in the twentieth-century US South underscores the sixties' slogan that Personal is Political. The definitions of beauty and the institutions that supported these cannot be separated f…

  • Collegiate Republic

    Amy Thompson Mccandle, Amy Thompson McCandlessARTICLEJournal of American History2015

  • The New Southern University

    Amy Thompson Mccandle, Amy Thompson McCandlessARTICLEJournal of American History2012

    Engraved on a wall of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., are the words “Freedom Is Not Free,” alluding to the human and financial costs of defending the liberties at the core of American democracy. The academic freedom central to the modern American university likewise required brave defenders and institutional commitment. In The New Southern University, Charles J. Holden describes how administrators and faculty at the Universi…

  • Making North Carolina Literate

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Allen W TreleaseARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2006

  • Academy and College

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Judith T BainbridgeARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2003

  • Thinking Confederates

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Dan R FrostARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002

  • The Leverett Letters

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Frances Wallace Taylor et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

  • In Pursuit of Refinement

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Maurice D McInnis et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000Cited by: 1

    In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860. Edited by Maurice D. McInnis in collaboration with Angela D. Mack with essays by J. Thomas Savage, Robert A. Leath, and Susan Ricci Stebbens. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 352. Illustrations, color plates. $75.00.) Science, Race, and Religion in American South: John Bachman and Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895. By Lester D. Stephens. (Chapel Hil…

  • Padua and the Tudors

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Jonathan WoolfsonARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly2000Cited by: 6

  • Charlotte and UNC Charlotte

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Ken SanfordARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1998

  • The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Doug Boucher et al.ARTICLESouthern Economic Journal1996

    Preface 1.The social contract and its critics: an overview, David Boucher and Paul Kelly 2.Hobbes' contractarianism: A comparative analysis, Murray Forsyth 3.John Locke: Social contract versus political anthropology, Jeremy Waldron 4.Locke's contract in perspective, Martyn P.Thompson 5.History, reason and experience: Hume's arguments against contract theories, Dario Castiglione 6.Rousseau, social contract and the modern Leviathan, Jeremy Jennings…

  • Beneath Thy Guiding Hand

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Carol E HoffeckerARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1995

  • Power and Economic Institutions

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Bo GustafssonARTICLESouthern Economic Journal1992

    Contents: Part I: Traditional Economies 1. Economic Power and Productive Efficiency in Traditional Agriculture (A. Bhaduri) 2. The Rise and Economic Behaviour of Medieval Craft Guilds (B. Gustafsson) 3. Transaction Costs, Whig History and the Common Fields (S. Fenoaltea) Part II: Transitions to Capitalism 4. On the Origins of Capitalist Hierarchy (M. Berg) 5. From Verlag to Factory: The Contest for Efficient Property Rights (L. Magnusson) Part II…

  • Balm in Gilead

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Sara Lawrence LightfootARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1990

  • British Social Attitudes -- The 1985 Report

    Amy Thompson McCandless, Roger Jowell et al.ARTICLESouthern Economic Journal1987