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War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism
John Seelye
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Description for War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism
Paperback. A study of the early writings of Richard Harding Davis, the premier American journalist of the 1890s. John Seelye argues that Davis foreshadowed future US strategy by advocating a limited engagement in support of embryonic democratic movements in the Caribbean until stability was established. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; HBTQ; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 603.
An analysis of the beginnings of American imperial rhetoric; This is a study of the early writings of Richard Harding Davis, the premier American journalist of the 1890s, best remembered for his coverage of the Spanish-American War. The emphasis of the book is on Davis's reporting - including several volumes of travel writing, covering trips to the Near East and South and Central America. Some account is also made of his fiction, most especially Soldiers of Fortune (1897), which critics have seen as a romantic treatment of the imperialist elan. As such, the novel serves as a prolegomenon to the ... Read more
An analysis of the beginnings of American imperial rhetoric; This is a study of the early writings of Richard Harding Davis, the premier American journalist of the 1890s, best remembered for his coverage of the Spanish-American War. The emphasis of the book is on Davis's reporting - including several volumes of travel writing, covering trips to the Near East and South and Central America. Some account is also made of his fiction, most especially Soldiers of Fortune (1897), which critics have seen as a romantic treatment of the imperialist elan. As such, the novel serves as a prolegomenon to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558493865
SKU
V9781558493865
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About John Seelye
John Seelye is graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. His many books include Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the American Republic, 1750-1825 and Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock.
Reviews for War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism
A truly welcome study of a long overlooked figure. Richard Harding Davis's work is very important in the area of renewed scholarship on nineteenth-century writers' involvement with the imperialist movements of their time. - Sharon M. Harris, author of Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism