Conservatism and British foreign policy, 1820-1920 : the Derbys and their world / edited by Geoffrey Hicks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The view from Knowsley / Geoffrey Hicks -- Derby redivivus: reflections on the political achievement of the fourteenth Earl of Derby / Angus Hawkins -- The ultimate test: the fourteenth earl, the admiralty and the ministry of 1852 / Andrew Lambert -- The fourteenth earl and the 'political chameleon': changing views of Palmerston from Knowsley / David Brown -- The struggle for stability: the fourteenth earl and Europe, 1852-1868 / Geoffrey Hicks -- "Only wants quiet riding"?: Disraeli, the fifteenth Earl of Derby and the "war-in-sight" crisis / T.G. Otte -- Britain's 'most isolationist foreign secretary': the fifteenth earl and the eastern crisis 1876-8 / Bendor Grosvenor -- Crossing the floor: Mary Derby, the fifteenth earl and the liberals, 1878-1882 / Jennifer Davey -- Oiling the entente: the seventeenth Earl of Derby and the Paris Embassy, 1918-20 / David Dutton -- Traditions of conservative foreign policy / John Charmley.