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

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

White, Sam

Paperback

Colonial Period (1600-1775)Environmental StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0674244907
ISBN13: 9780674244900
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Feb 4 2020
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

Cundill History Prize Finalist
Longman-History Today Prize Finalist
Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize

Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.
--Times Literary Supplement

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.

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.

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