A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America

by Sam White

Book Overview

Cundill History Prize Finalist
Longman-History Today Prize Finalist
Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize

"Meticulous environmental-historical detective work."
--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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674244907
• ISBN13: 9780674244900
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"