Chapter 1 Introduction: Power, Law and the Declaration of Paris

Chapter 2 ‘More Serious than the Eastern Question Itself’ — The Crimean War Compromise

Chapter 3 The Crimean War and Maritime Law

Chapter 4 ‘Catching Brother Jonathan in the Trap which He Laid for Us’ — The Genesis of the Declaration of Paris

Chapter 6 ‘The United States Have a Vote in Framing the Maritime Law of this Age’ — The Cass Memorandum and Bremen’s Campaign for the Marcy Amendment

Chapter 7 The Declaration of Paris and the American Civil War

Chapter 8 ‘Announcing Our Withdrawal from the Declaration’ — The Declaration of Paris and the Franco-German War of 1870

Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of the Declaration of Paris