An age of neutrals: great power politics, 1815-1914

Introduction : It is not the neutrals or lukewarms that make history

Neutrality on the eve of the industrial age

Neutrality, neutralisation and the Concert of Europe

The neutrals' war : Britain and the global implications of the Crimean War, 1853-1856

How to be neutral : negotiating neutrality in the wars of nationhood, 1859-1871

Neutrality as an international and patriotic ideal

Regulating neutrality from The Hague to The Hague, 1899-1907

Neutral no more : neutrality and the origins of the First World War

Conclusion : International law's 'finest and most fragile flower'.