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 Marti, Mark Twain,
Herbert Spencer, and others, address such issues as social
Darwinism, masculinity, and ideas of Anglo-American superiority.
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