A cold welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America /

When Europeans first arrived in North America, they found an often harsh and unfamiliar land in the grip of the coldest age for millennia: the "Little Ice Age." Spanish, French, and English alike faced a century of disasters, setbacks, and failures on the way to their first enduring footho...

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Autor principal: White, Sam, 1980- (autor.)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Materias:
Europeos > Norte América > Historia
Indígenas de América del Norte > Primer contacto con los europeos
Seres humanos > Influencia del medio ambiente > Norte América
Arqueología e historia > Norte América
América del Norte > Historia > Periodo colonial, 1600-1775.
América del Norte > Descubrimiento y exploración.
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  • 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.

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