Publisher's Synopsis
Foucault explores the birth of the modern nation state in the 18th century through an analysis of its administration of institutionalised power relations, beginning with the fundamental technologies of security.
About the Publisher
Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.
