The Foreign Office and British diplomacy in the twentieth century / edited by Gaynor Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Lord David Owen -- Introduction: The Foreign Office and British diplomacy in the twentieth century / Gaynor Johnson -- The Foreign and Commonwealth Office: resistance and adaptation to changing times / Zara Steiner -- Old diplomacy: reflections on the foreign office before 1914 / T.G. Otte -- Preparing for office: Lord Curzon as acting foreign secretary, Januay-October 1919 / Gaynor Johnson -- Adapting to a new world? British foreign policy in the 1920s / Alan Sharp -- The Foreign Office, 1930-39: strategy, permanent interests and national security / B.J.C. McKercher -- The Foreign Office and Britain's ambassadors to Berlin, 1933-39 / Peter Neville -- Splendid isolation to finest hour: Britain as a global power, 1900-1950 / John Charmley -- Managing the Americans: Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and the pursuit of 'power by proxy' in the 1950s / Kevin Ruane and James Ellison -- From carbon paper to e-mail: changes in methods in the Foreign Office, 1950-2000 / Sir Alan Campbell -- 'Not the "general will" but the will of the general': the input of the Paris Embassy to the British "Great Debate" on Europe, summer 1960 / Sean Greenwood -- Reflections on thirty years in the diplomatic service / Alyson J.K. Bailes -- Accommodating diplomacy: the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the debate of Whitehall redevelopment / Keith Hamilton -- How did Wilton Park survive into the twenty-first century? / Richard Langhorne.