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White, Sam, 1980-
Subjects
Europeans -- North America -- History.
First Nations -- First contact with Europeans.
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- North America.
Archaeology and history -- North America.
Climatic changes -- North America -- History.
North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America -- Discovery and exploration.
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White, Sam, 1980-
Europeans -- North America -- History.
First Nations -- First contact with Europeans.
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- North America.
Archaeology and history -- North America.
Climatic changes -- North America -- History.
North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America -- Discovery and exploration.
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A cold welcome : the
Little
Ice
Age
and
Europe
's
encounter
with
North
America
/ Sam White.
by
White, Sam, 1980-
Harvard University Press, 2017.
Call #:
970.01 W588c
Subjects
Europeans --
North
America
-- History.
First Nations -- First contact with Europeans.
Indians of
North
America
-- First contact with Europeans.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on --
North
America
.
Archaeology and history --
North
America
.
Climatic changes --
North
America
-- History.
North
America
-- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North
America
-- Discovery and exploration.
ISBN:
9780674971929 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Little
Ice
Age
and
Europe
's
encounter
with
North
America
Description:
xii, 361 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. The fascinating and often forgotten tale of
Europe
's first encounters with a new continent, and the first settlements of the US and Canada. 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. The author 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. Sam White is an associate professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University"--Provided by publisher.
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970.01 W588c
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