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 laws finest and most fragile flower