Mary Dudziak's post on Martha Minow's In Brown's Wake reminds me that this is going to be a busy fall for reading. Other books from the fall catalogs that I'm very excited about are Chris Tomlins' Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 and Steven Lubet's Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial. (Some of my thoughts on the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 are here.)
Today's New York Review of Books brought news of another book that I've put on my list — Patrick Chura's Thoreau: The Land Surveyor. (Very cool thing that I see is that the Concord library has posted on-line some of Thoreau's land surveys.) Now that's a topic I need to know more about — particularly because Walden occupied such a key place in "Property and Progress."
Other recent books from the most recent issue of NYROB … I'm sure Krawiec agrees with everything in Debra Satz' Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale.