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The status of concepts in intellectual history is a fraught question. Too often, despite our best intentions, we attempt to impose a conceptual uniformity onto particular historical vocabularies and circumstances for the sake of appeasing our own modern worries and preconceptions. This is particularly striking in the history of citizenship, where we have too readily imported modern, normative and...