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Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724
… dissertation thus closes with the work of the "American" authors Cotton Mather and Joseph-François Lafitau, who refined the meaning of custom to the brink of irrelevance at the turn of the eighteenth century, transforming it from the source of one's sense of communal belonging to a mere index of …