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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Richard Harding Davis Brady Harrison. © 2006 Brady Harrison All rights reserved . The use of any part of this publication reproduced , transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic , mechanical , photocopying , recording , or ...
Richard Harding Davis Brady Harrison. Contents Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Richard Harding Davis : A Brief Chronology⚫ 33 A Note on the Text • 37 Soldiers of Fortune • 39 Appendix A : Images of Davis 1. Davis as he looked when he ...
Richard Harding Davis Brady Harrison. Appendix E : Davis and Others on American Masculinity 1. From Richard Harding Davis , Captain Macklin ( 1902 ) 251 2. From Richard Harding Davis , " William Walker , The King of the Filibusters ...
Richard Harding Davis Brady Harrison. Acknowledgements A number of people and institutions have given generously of their time , energy , and expertise to this project , and I am very grateful for their assistance . In particular , my ...
Richard Harding Davis Brady Harrison. Introduction In January 1897 , Richard Harding Davis , in the company of Frederic Remington and in the employ of the New York Journal , arrived in Cuba to cover the island's struggle for independence ...