Power, Law and the End of Privateering

Introduction: Power, Law and the Declaration of Paris 1. 'More serious than the Eastern question itself' - The Crimean War Compromise 2. The Crimean War and Maritime Law 3. 'Catching Brother Jonathan in the trap which he laid for us' - The Genesis of the Declaration of Paris 4. 'That moral league of nations against the United States' - The Declaration of Paris and the Marcy Amendment 5. '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 6. The Declaration of Paris and the American Civil War 7. 'Announcing our withdrawal from the Declaration' - The Declaration of Paris and the Franco-German War of 1870 Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of the Declaration of Paris