Introduction: it is not the neutrals or lukewarms that make history 1. Neutrality on the eve of the industrial age 2. Neutrality, neutralisation and the Concert of Europe 3. The neutrals' war: Britain and the global implications of the Crimean War 4. How to be neutral: negotiating neutrality in the wars of nationhood, 1859-72 5. Neutrality as an international and patriotic ideal 6. Regulating neutrality from The Hague to The Hague, 1898-1907 7. Neutral no more: neutrality and the origins of the First World War Conclusion: international law's 'finest and most fragile flower' Bibliography Index.
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