Bøker av Nick Mansfield

A lavishly illustrated historical analysis of Britain's nineteenth-century labour movement, built around a collection of the things and images that its members made and used. Suitable for academic and lay readers alike.

This book offers the first encounter between labour history and military history, with an analysis of the working lives of nineteenth British rank and file soldiers in the context of a developing working class industrial culture and in its interaction with British society.

Outlines Jacques Derrida's thinking on sovereignty in relation to subjectivity through an investigation of the late work "Rogues: Two Essays on Reason". This book detects in Derrida's thinking of sovereignty - a theme that increasingly attracted him towards the end of his life - the outline of Bataille's adaptation of Freud.

The concern with the self, with our subjectivity, is the main point of reference in modern Western societies. This work explores how notions of subjectivity have developed over the 20th century, analyzing the work of modern and postmodern theorists such as Freud, Foucault, and Haraway.