Was Liberalism in the 19th century the ideology of vested economic interests?

Submitted Assignment from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: 90, Liverpool John Moores University, course: Political ideology, language: English, abstract: This report sets out to investigate whether 19th century liberalism was the ideology of vested economic interest. The proposals of early liberals constituted an attack not only on the c...