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Title: A Cold Welcome : The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
Description: Cundill History Prize FinalistLongman–History Today Prize Finalist“Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.”—Times Literary SupplementWhen 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.“A remarkable journey through the complex impacts of the Little Ice Age on Colonial North America…This beautifully written, important book leaves us in no doubt that we ignore the chronicle of past climate change at our peril. I found it hard to put down.”—Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age“Deeply researched and exciting…His fresh account of the climatic forces shaping the colonization of North America differs significantly from long-standing interpretations of those early calamities.”—New York Review of Books
Authors: Sam White
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Subjects: Archaeology and history--North America, Human beings--Effect of climate on--North America, Europeans--North America--History, Medicine--History--17th century, Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples
Categories: HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change
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