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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... lives or property . Angry at the policies of what he considered a second - rate European power , in his 1897 collection of articles from the Journal , the reporter calls on the nation to follow through on the principle of hemispheric ...
... Lives ( 1890 ) ; Stephen Crane ( 1871–1900 ) , Ameri- can author of The Red Badge of Courage ( 1895 ) and other novels and stories ; Jack London ( 1876–1919 ) , American writer and social critic best known for The Call of the Wild ...
... and Letters of Richard Harding Davis ( New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1917 ) , compiled and edited by Davis ' brother , Charles Belmont Davis . ditions and short , brutal lives of immigrant industrial workers SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 13.
Richard Harding Davis Brady Harrison. ditions and short , brutal lives of immigrant industrial workers in an iron and cotton town modeled after Wheeling . The story not only impressed such Olympians as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel ...
... or a narrow strip of land connecting two larger territories ; hence , anyone who lives in Central America may be referred to as an " isthmian . " he needs is to have a protectorate established over him SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 17.