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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... William Walker , The King of the Filibusters " ( 1906 ) • 251 3. From Theodore Roosevelt , " The Strenuous Life " ( 10 April 1899 ) • 252 4. From William James , " Letter on Governor Roosevelt's Oration " ( 15 April 1899 ) 255 Appendix ...
... William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature ( 2004 ) , a study of the literary after - life of one of Davis ' heroes.1 In addition , Davis has been the SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 21.
... William Walker ( 1824–60 ) , American filibuster , or soldier of fortune , who raised a private army and conquered Nicaragua ( 1856–57 ) until being forced out of the isthmus by the combined forces of Central America . Walker has been ...
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