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
