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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... York in 1890 225 2. The Three Gringos 226 3. Davis in his Spanish - 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 ...
... York : New York UP , 1960. ) Excerpt from José Martí's " Cuba and the United States . " ( Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Our America : Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence , ed . Philip S ...
... York Journal , arrived in Cuba to cover the island's struggle for independence from Spain.1 As Davis - engaged in his first venture as a war cor- respondent - tells us , before he landed at the " Pearl of the Antilles , " he had been ...
... York : R.H. Russell , 1897 ) , 129 . 2 Christopher P. Wilson , " Plotting the Border : John Reed , Pancho Villa , and Insurgent Mexico " in Cultures of United States Imperialism , ed . Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease ( Durham : Duke UP ...
... along the 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.