The Long Year: A 2020 Reader

Book Overview

Some years--1789, 1929, 1989--change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprung not from new risks but known dangers. The world--like many patients--met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231204531
• ISBN13: 9780231204538
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"