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A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America

Sam White

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A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America

A Cold Welcome was a Cundill History Prize Finalist and Longman–History Today Prize Finalist. When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climactic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, winters in which everything froze, even the Rio Grande. A Cold Welcome tells the story of this crucial period, taking us from Europe's earliest expeditions in unfamiliar landscapes to the perilous first winters in Quebec and Jamestown. As we confront our own uncertain future, it offers a powerful reminder of the unexpected risks of an unpredictable climate.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press - T
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9780674981331
Genre
History
Topics
Little Ice AgeEuropean colonization of North AmericaClimate change effects on history

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