Soldiers of Fortune (Broadview Editions) Paperback - 2006
by Harding Davis, Richard
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- Title Soldiers of Fortune (Broadview Editions)
- Author Harding Davis, Richard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press Inc, Orchard Park, New York, U.S.A.
- Date June 2, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1551116790.G
- ISBN 9781551116792 / 1551116790
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.84 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006389438
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
About Bonita California, United States
From the rear cover
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 Mart, Mark Twain, Herbert Spencer, and others, address such issues as social Darwinism, masculinity, and ideas of Anglo-American superiority.