{"id":348,"date":"2017-12-12T13:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T13:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/?p=348"},"modified":"2024-10-02T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:43:10","slug":"brexit-good-night-and-good-luck-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2017\/12\/12\/brexit-good-night-and-good-luck-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit. Good night and good luck, Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently interviewed the historian Donald Sassoon<\/strong> on Brexit and the (poor) political situation in Europe. Our dialogue will introduce a book titled Brexit<\/em>.\u00a0Buona fortuna, Europa<\/em>, published by Luca Sossella Editore<\/a> within the new series\u00a0Collassi<\/strong>, directed by Luca Massidda and Mario Pireddu and dedicated to the analysis of contemporary\u00a0emergencies:<\/em>\u00a0disruptions of the past, crises of the present, and symptoms\u00a0of the future.<\/p>\n

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The online magazine Doppiozero<\/em> just published a\u00a0preview of my dialogue\u00a0with Donald Sasson<\/a>, which was triggered by the analysis of the cover the New Yorker<\/em> dedicated to the referendum’s result.<\/p>\n

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A row of stereotypical Englishmen\u00a0walking with the silly pace satirised\u00a0by the Monty Python<\/a>\u00a0approach the edge of a cliff and fall one after another into the abyss.<\/p>\n

What created the same blank, bewildered, blind gaze in the eyes of so many men and women in Europe? This is the question Sassoon\u00a0tries to answer in his sharp and penetrating book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently interviewed the historian Donald Sassoon on Brexit and the (poor) political situation in Europe. Our dialogue will introduce a book titled Brexit.\u00a0Buona fortuna, Europa, published by Luca Sossella Editore within the new series\u00a0Collassi, directed by Luca Massidda and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,16],"tags":[113,112,111,116,114,27,117,115,79],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-generic-figures","category-illustrations","tag-book","tag-brexit","tag-donald-sassoon","tag-englishmen","tag-europe","tag-italy","tag-luca-sossella-editore","tag-monty-python","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}