Verfasst von:	White, Sam [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	A cold welcome
Titelzusatz:	the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America
Verf.angabe:	Sam White
Ausgabe:	First printing
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
Verlag:	Harvard University Press
Jahr:	2017
Umfang:	xii, 361 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Karten, Illustrationen, Diagramme
Format:	25 cm
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-349) and index
ISBN:	978-0-674-97192-9
	0-674-97192-2
Abstract:	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
	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.
Schlagwörter:	(g)Nordamerika    / (s)Kleine Eiszeit    / (s)Klima    / (s)Europäer    / (s)Siedlung
	(g)Europa    / (s)Kleine Eiszeit    / (g)Nordamerika    / (z)Geschichte    / (s)Neuzeit    / (s)Kolonisation    / (s)Klimaänderung    / (s)Vor- und Frühgeschichte    / (s)Archäologie
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: White, Sam: A Cold Welcome. - Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2017. - 1 online resource (377 pages)
RVK-Notation:	RT 15438
	NN 4040
Sach-SW:	Frühe Neuzeit
K10plus-PPN:	889015945