A Cold Welcome

The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, Meteorology, History, Americas, North America, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Author: Sam White ISBN: 9780674981348
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: October 16, 2017
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Sam White
ISBN: 9780674981348
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: October 16, 2017
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

When Europeans arrived in North America, the average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia and its effects—famine, starvation, desperation, and violence—were stark among colonists unprepared to fend for themselves. This history of the Little Ice Age in North America reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate.

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When Europeans arrived in North America, the average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia and its effects—famine, starvation, desperation, and violence—were stark among colonists unprepared to fend for themselves. This history of the Little Ice Age in North America reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate.

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