A Cold Welcome - The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

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Little Ice Age's impact on Colonial America

"A Cold Welcome" is essential for anyone interested in the history of North America and how environmental factors shaped the continent's early history. Sam White's book provides a comprehensive account of Colonial America's first encounters with winter, exploring the consequences of the Little Ice Age in the 16th and 17th centuries. His research is meticulous, and the book is beautifully written, making it an engaging read that leaves readers with a lasting impression of the dangers of climate change.

  • Cundill History Prize Nominee for Finalist (2018)
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A Cold Welcome - The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

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ISBN: 9780674971929
Authors: Sam White
Date of Publication: 2017-10-16
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Science, Nature
Goodreads rating: 3.94
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When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia, and its effects were stark and blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, and winters when even the Rio Grande froze. This period of climate change has come to be known as the Little Ice Age, and it played a decisive role in Europe’s encounter with the lands and peoples of North America. In A Cold Welcome , Sam White tells the story of this crucial period in world history, from Europe’s earliest expeditions in an unfamiliar landscape to the perilous first winters at Santa Fe, Quebec, and Jamestown.Weaving together evidence from climatology, archaeology, and the written historical record, White describes how the severity and volatility of the Little Ice Age climate threatened to freeze and starve out the Europeans’ precarious new settlements. Lacking basic provisions and wholly unprepared to fend for themselves under such harsh conditions, Europeans suffered life-threatening privation, and their desperation precipitated violent conflict with Native Americans.In the twenty-first century, as we confront an uncertain future from global warming, A Cold Welcome reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate.
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Little Ice Age's impact on Colonial America

"A Cold Welcome" is essential for anyone interested in the history of North America and how environmental factors shaped the continent's early history. Sam White's book provides a comprehensive account of Colonial America's first encounters with winter, exploring the consequences of the Little Ice Age in the 16th and 17th centuries. His research is meticulous, and the book is beautifully written, making it an engaging read that leaves readers with a lasting impression of the dangers of climate change.

  • Cundill History Prize Nominee for Finalist (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.