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- PublishedOn
- 2020-02-25
- ISBN
- 9780674244900
- EAN
- 9780674244900
- Book Title
- Cold Welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Science, History
- Topic
- Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Global Warming & Climate Change, North America
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Cundill History Prize Finalist Longman- History Today Prize Finalist "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 "Meticulous environmental-historical detective work...A pioneering and precise environmental history of the European settlement of North America." -- 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.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674244907
ISBN-13
9780674244900
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038793606
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Book Title
Cold Welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Global Warming & Climate Change, North America
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Science, History
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.8 Oz
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In his deeply researched and exciting new book, A Cold Welcome , the historian Sam White focuses on the true stories of the English, Spanish, and French colonial expeditions in North America. He tells strange and surprising tales of drought, famine, bitterly cold winters, desperation, and death, while anchoring his research in the methods and results of the science of climate change and historical climatology...He weaves an intricate, complex tapestry as he examines the effects both of climate--meteorological conditions over relatively long periods of time--and of weather--the conditions of the atmosphere over a short term--on vulnerable colonists in North America in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries...His fresh account of the climatic forces shaping the colonization of North America differs significantly from long-standing interpretations of those early calamities., The period from 1492 to 1620 is the 'forgotten century' in American history, with most textbooks offering only a passing mention to early European exploration and settlement in North America. In fact, there were dozens of attempts to penetrate the continent, but all ended in starvation, disease, violence, and death. In A Cold Welcome , White explains how the Little Ice Age contributed to these failures. By combining archival research with the latest findings of climate scientists, he makes a brilliant contribution to both American and environmental history., A Cold Welcome deserves a warm reception from anyone interested in colonial America, the early modern Atlantic, or the history of changing climates. Taking a holistic view of North America, White brilliantly illuminates the history of early Spanish, French, and English settlements as they struggled to come to grips with unexpected climates and a challenging spell during the Little Ice Age., In the barbarous early years of European colonization of North America, there have long been three acknowledged Horsemen of the Apocalypse: poor planning, cultural incomprehension, and bad timing. Sam White reminds us of a fourth deadly rider: climate change. His analysis of the Little Ice Age in North America makes the crucial point that failure to understand and adapt to climate change has been fatal., Sam White's aptly named A Cold Welcome is a remarkable journey through the complex impacts of the Little Ice Age on Colonial North America. His compelling narrative takes the study of early America in a new, and potentially highly important, direction that delves into a now vanished world of daunting climatic extremes. 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., An environmental historian by trade, [White] has produced a highly readable study of how people struggled to exist and gain a foothold in unfamiliar lands., White presents a fascinating account of Europeans' 16th and early 17th century incursions into North America to highlight that colonial exploration was impeded by famines, diseases, afflictions and deaths for the British, the French, and the Spanish as they faced storms, icy winters, hurricanes, droughts, and extreme cold spells...In making climate history and climate reconstruction part of a contextualized historical inquiry, White not only stresses what was, but also implies what could have been for the early European expansion into Northern America...Beautifully written and skillfully researched, this book is highly relevant for scholars interested in the ways in which colonial history has been shaped at the intersection of human societies and the natural world, and more widely for all who seek to understand the consequences of present-day climate change on contemporary and future human communities...White's book constitutes a reminder of the deleterious effects of uncontrolled climatic variations throughout social history, and yet another warning., Meticulous environmental-historical detective work... White's aim is to show how the patterns of European colonization in North America in the century before 1620 were driven by the engagement between settlers and the climatic and environmental conditions they encountered... A Cold Welcome is a pioneering and precise environmental history of the European settlement of North America.
Dewey Decimal
970.01
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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