| | A Cold Welcome The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2017 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-97192-9, ISBN: 0-674-97192-2
"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 ..."
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