In Irons: Britain`s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy by Richard Buel

In Irons: Britain`s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy

Richard Buel

416 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be "in irons." In this groundbreaking examination of America s Revolutionary War economy, the phrase is an apt metaphor for the inability of that economy to free itself from t...

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