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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... Charles Darwin , The Descent of Man ( 1874 ) • 243 3. From Rebecca Harding Davis , " Life in the Iron - Mills " ( 1861 ) • 244 4. From Andrew Carnegie , The Gospel of Wealth ( 1900 ) • 245 5. From Theodore Roosevelt , " The Expansion of ...
... Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer with me . One could not ask for better col- leagues . I also owe many thanks , as always , to Sue Samson and the staff at the Mansfield Library at the University of Montana . Without their assistance ...
... road to war in Vietnam . 2 Arthur Lubow , The Reporter Who Would be King ( New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1992 ) , 124 . and the Philippines.1 Soldiers , currently enjoying a resurgence of SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 11.
... Charles Dana Gibson and John Singer Sargent , dined with stage and film stars Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore , and reported on the exploits and campaigns of such soldiers and politicians as General Leonard Wood , Theodore Roosevelt ...
... Charles Dana Gibson ( 1867-1944 ) was one of the most popular American artists of the early twentieth century and of ... Charles Scribner's Sons , 1917 ) , compiled and edited by Davis ' brother , Charles Belmont Davis . ditions and ...