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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... Street , Suite 1900 , Toronto , Ontario M5E 1E5 — is an infringement of the copyright law . Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Davis , Richard Harding , 1864–1916 . Soldiers of Fortune / Richard Harding Davis ...
... street - smart , quick - thinking , and slang- talking young press boy named Gallegher . The appearance of " Gallegher " in the August 1890 , issue of Scribner's Magazine made Davis , as Lubow remarks , " Byronically famous overnight ...
... streets to pick up the mail and join the Clarks [ a wealthy family from Chicago that , like Davis ' family , would summer in Marion ] for a swim . Following lunch , he would work until four , when Cecil [ Clark ] would arrive to take ...
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