Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-316) and index.
Seward's statecraft -- Russell's resoluteness -- Gladstone's group -- The British conservatives seek settlement -- Gladstone's grit -- Fisheries and free trade -- Geopolitics and the Treaty of Washington era -- Chill of indifference -- Threshold of negotiations -- Fish and the devil -- Informal negotiations in January 1871 -- An unseemly paradox -- Defining the triangle -- Doom or salvation? -- The San Juan and fisheries arbitrations