Making All the World America by Timothy Bowers Vasko - 9781512829297

Name: Making All the World America by Timothy Bowers Vasko - 9781512829297
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press

University of Pennsylvania Press

Making All the World AmericaNative Information and the Doctrine of Discovery\nAuthor(s): Timothy Bowers Vasko\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512829297, 978-1512829297\nSynopsis\nA provocative new account of the ideological framework undergirding early modern imperial expansion: the Doctrine of Discovery\n\nMaking All the World America offers a new account of the ideological framework undergirding early modern imperial expansion: the Doctrine of Discovery, which held that the first arrival of a European power among the lands and peoples of the Western Hemisphere granted the right to govern the regions that they claimed to have \""discovered.\""\n\nWhile scholars have maintained that the doctrine operated through the suppression of Indigenous peoples, Timothy Bowers Vasko contends that, on the contrary, the doctrine's ideological work actually depended on the recognition of Indigenous .