How to begin?
He thinks Britain came back from what he would call disaster, and then set itself on the road to greatness, between 1820 and 1848.
Nothing could be further from the truth, yet that is exactly the story that is usually told over here, the 19th Century was peaceful after 1815 until the sudden evil surprise of German nationalism.
Why do I say such a crazy thing?
Think about what happened elsewhere in Europe in 1830 and 1848, and then only shortly later, in the 19th Century, the Crimean and Franco Prussian Wars, and then the disaster of 1914 and the terrible WWII aftermath ....and the total loss of the British Empire and all the others. That is what your British (and continental) liberalism, starting in the 18th Century not the 19th, got you, in spades.
Study this blog.
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