Cold Welcome
The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America
1st Edition
Published on 16. October 2017
978-0-674-98134-8 (ISBN)
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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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