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

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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--
Language
eng
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Extent
xii, 361 pages
Contents
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
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9780674971929
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A cold welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America
Title
A cold welcome
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the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America
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Sam White
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cold welcome
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the Little Ice Age and Europes encounter with North America
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Language
eng
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--
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1980-
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White, Sam
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970.01
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  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
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non fiction
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  • Europeans
  • Indians of North America
  • Human beings
  • Archaeology and history
  • Archaeology and history
  • Discoveries in geography
  • Europeans
  • Human beings
  • Indians of North America
  • North America
  • North America
  • North America
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the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America
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A cold welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America, Sam White
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Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-349) and index
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Contents
Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion
Control code
1889296
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xii, 361 pages
Isbn
9780674971929
Lccn
2017016539
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
Other control number
40027526039
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
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  • (Sirsi) i9780674971929
  • (OCoLC)981979728
Label
A cold welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America, Sam White
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-349) and index
Carrier category
volume
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  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • cartographic image
  • text
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  • cri
  • txt
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion
Control code
1889296
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xii, 361 pages
Isbn
9780674971929
Lccn
2017016539
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40027526039
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780674971929
  • (OCoLC)981979728

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