caa a22 4500 386366322 CHVBK 20180307111935.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002187580000373X doi S002187580000373X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002187580000373X Clark Michael D. Michael D. Clark is Professor of History of the University of New Orleans, Lakefront, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA. Ralph Adams Cram and the Americanization of the Middle Ages [Elektronische Daten] [Michael D. Clark] "The true democracy of St. Louis, Edward I and Washington is forgotten,” lamented the American architect Ralph Adams Cram in 1917, "and a false democracy has taken its place. ” The assertion was no aberration of wartime hysteria, and was less eccentric in the early twentieth century than it would have been before or since. It gave pointed expression to a set of attitudes which had strong appeal to a significant number of Cram's countrymen, and which casts light on the perennial efforts of Americans to define their place in history and to balance the competing claims of tradition and innovation. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/2(1989-08), 195-213 0021-8758 23:2<195 1989 23 AMS https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580000373X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580000373X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Clark Michael D. Michael D. Clark is Professor of History of the University of New Orleans, Lakefront, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/2(1989-08), 195-213 0021-8758 23:2<195 1989 23 AMS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge