Soldiers of FortuneBroadview Press, 2006 M06 2 - 272 pages A romance of America’s nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and generals, threatens the American-owned Valencia Mining Company, Clay organizes his workers and the handful of Americans visiting the mine into a counter-coup force. Written on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Soldiers of Fortune casts the young American as the dashing, hypermasculine hero of the new military and economic. A huge best-seller, the novel did its part to push the nation into war against Spain, and stands as one of the most important texts in the literature of American imperialism. The appendices, which bring together primary materials by writers and politicians such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Theodore Roosevelt, Jose Martí, Mark Twain, Herbert Spencer, and others, address such issues as social Darwinism, masculinity, and ideas of Anglo-American superiority. |
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... American War kit⚫ 227 4. Davis and Theodore Roosevelt at the beginning of the Spanish - American War 228 Appendix B : How Others Saw Davis • 1. Booth Tarkington , " Richard Harding Davis " ( 1916 ) 229 2. From Theodore Roosevelt ...
... American Imperialism • 1. From John L. O'Sullivan , " Annexation " ( July 1845 ) 257 2. From José Martí , “ Cuba and the United States " ( 1889 ) • 258 3. From Richard Harding Davis , Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America ...
... America : Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence , ed . Philip S. Foner , trans . Elinor Randall ; additional trans . Juan de Onís and Roslyn Held Foner . New York : Monthly Review Press , 1977. ) Excerpts ...
... doctrine , later administrations have relied on its principles to justify US interventions in the Caribbean and Central and South America . stars and an extra stripe , who send American property SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 9 II.