| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. By John Seelye. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. xviii, 341 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 1-55849-372-7. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-55849-386-7.)
In recent years, many young scholars have replaced the study of international diplomacy, power politics, and security issues with the study of "cultural imperialism." John Seelye's War Games straddles the lines between the old and new studies of the history of international relations. He looks at culture and power. Seelye, a professor of American literature, argues that Richard Harding Davis's novels, travel books, and life experiences fit the "new imperialism" as outlined by Walter LaFeber's The New Empire (1963, 1999).	1
Davis's writings presented his changing views of U.S. expansion and of the contemporary world. In Seelye's view, Davis's travel writings and his newspaper reporting are vastly underrated and were more important than his novels and other fiction. Seelye thinks that Davis's writings allow "us to take the moral measure of Americans at the end of the nineteenth century" (p. 313).	. . .

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