Professor Vasko publishes new book with University of Pennsylvania Press

Congratulations to Professor Vasko on the publication of Making all the World America: Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery with the University of Pennsylvania Press. 

A provocative new account of the ideological framework undergirding early modern imperial expansion: the Doctrine of Discovery

Making 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.”

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