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Format: xii, 361 Seiten , Karten, Illustrationen, Diagramme , 25 cm

Edition: First printing

ISBN: 9780674971929 , 0674971922

Content: 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

Content: 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 unpredictable: 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.

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-349) and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe White, Sam A Cold Welcome Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780674981331

Language: English

Subjects: History , Geography

Keywords: Nordamerika ; Kleine Eiszeit ; Klima ; Europäer ; Siedlung ; Europa ; Kleine Eiszeit ; Nordamerika ; Geschichte ; Neuzeit ; Kolonisation ; Klimaänderung ; Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Archäologie

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Format: 1 online resource (350 p.) : , 2 line illustrations, 12 maps

ISBN: 9780674981331

Content: Cundill History Prize Finalist Longman-History Today Prize Finalist "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." -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

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Maps -- , Author's Note -- , Introduction -- , 1. Where Everything Must Be Burning -- , 2. Such Great Snows We Thought We Were Dead Men -- , 3. The Land Itself Would Wage War -- , 4. Bitter Remedies -- , 5. We Had Changed Summer with Winter -- , 6. Destroyed with Cruel Disease -- , 7. Our Former Hopes Were Frozen to Death -- , 8. Winter for Eight Months and Hell for Four -- , 9. Death Follows Us Everywhere -- , 10. Such Wonders of Afflictions -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674981331

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674981331

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674981331

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674981331

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674981331

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Format: 1 online resource (362 pages) : , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 0-674-98134-0 , 0-674-98133-2

Content: 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.--

Note: Includes index. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Maps -- , Author’s Note -- , Introduction -- , 1. Where Everything Must Be Burning -- , 2. Such Great Snows We Thought We Were Dead Men -- , 3. The Land Itself Would Wage War -- , 4. Bitter Remedies -- , 5. We Had Changed Summer with Winter -- , 6. Destroyed with Cruel Disease -- , 7. Our Former Hopes Were Frozen to Death -- , 8. Winter for Eight Months and Hell for Four -- , 9. Death Follows Us Everywhere -- , 10. Such Wonders of Afflictions -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-97192-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674981331