Soldiers of Fortune
eBook - ePub

Soldiers of Fortune

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Soldiers of Fortune

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2006
eBook ISBN
9781460401750
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Richard Harding Davis: A Brief Chronology
  8. A Note on the Text
  9. Soldiers of Fortune
  10. Appendix A: Images of Davis
  11. Appendix B: How Others Saw Davis
  12. Appendix C: Reviews of Soldiers of Fortune
  13. Appendix D: Social Darwinism, Survival of the Richest, and Other Notions of Anglo-American Superiority
  14. Appendix E: Davis and Others on American Masculinity
  15. Appendix F: Davis and Others on American Imperialism
  16. Select Bibliography