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The Open History of Crisis

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The cover of a book. The title is "In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times". The author is James Cairns. The book features wavy blue lines like abstract waves and their are folded paper boats "floating" in them.

James Cairns “It is exceptionally difficult to grasp the present as history.”[1] Thus begins David McNally’s book on the 2008-09 financial crisis. In everyday usage, the present means now, this instant. History is what happened in the past, and the future is time yet to come. The real relationship of past, present, and future, however, is far more fluid and… Read more »