Title A cold welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America / Sam White

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Where everything must be burning -- Such great snows we thought we were dead men -- The land itself would wage war -- Bitter remedies -- We had changed summer with winter -- Destroyed with cruel disease -- Our former hopes were frozen to death -- Winter for eight months and hell for four -- Death follows us everywhere -- Such wonders of afflictions Summary When Europeans first arrived in North America, they found an often harsh and unfamiliar land in the grip of the coldest age for millennia: the "Little Ice Age." Spanish, French, and English alike faced a century of disasters, setbacks, and failures on the way to their first enduring footholds on the continent. All the while, the vagaries and extremes of North America's Little Ice Age climate posed new threats and challenges, shaping the course of colonial history. A Cold Welcome tells the fascinating and often forgotten tale of Europe's first encounters with a new continent, and the first settlements of the US and Canada. Drawing on wide-ranging interdisciplinary research in many languages, Sam White brings together the parallel histories of the Spanish, French, and English in North America, and the Native Americans they encountered, from the earliest expeditions to the perilous first winters at Jamestown, Quebec, and Santa Fe. A Cold Welcome weaves together evidence from climatology, archaeology, and human history to tell a new story of America's colonial beginnings--one both novel and yet relevant and familiar for a world now facing an uncertain future of environmental and climatic change.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 3, 2017) SUBJECT Exocet gnd Europa gnd Subject Europeans -- North America -- History Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- North America Archaeology and history -- North America Colonialism -- history Ecological and Environmental Phenomena Cold Climate History, 16th Century History, 17th Century HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY -- North America. HISTORY / North America Archaeology and history Discoveries in geography Europeans Human beings -- Effect of climate on Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples History of the Americas. European history. History. Historical geography. Climate change. North America. History. Europäer Kleine Eiszeit Siedlung SUBJECT North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092461 North America -- Discovery and exploration United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170 Subject North America Nordamerika Genre/Form Electronic books History History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2017016539 ISBN 9780674981331 0674981332 9780674981348 0674981340

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