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: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, winters in which everything froze, even the Rio Grande. A Cold Welcome tells the story of this crucial period, taking us from Europe's earliest expeditions in unfamiliar landscapes to the perilous first winters in Quebec and Jamestown. As we confront our own uncertain future, it offers a powerful reminder of the unexpected risks of an unpredictable climate. "A remarkable journey through the complex impacts of the Little Ice Age on Colonial North America...This beautifully written, important book leaves us in no doubt that we ignore the chronicle of past climate change at our peril. I found it hard to put down." --Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age "Deeply researched and exciting...His fresh account of the climatic forces shaping the colonization of North America differs significantly from long-standing interpretations of those early calamities." --New York Review of Books

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

History

White, Sam

Americas

Harvard University Press

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.

"I am often close. // I am often a boy / absent the island." White, in his debut, reintroduces the Romantic sensibility, as well as extra-quiet meditation, into an American poetic era sorely lacking these qualities.

THE GODDESS OF THE HUNT IS NOT HERSELF

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Slope Editions

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands. This study demonstrates how imperial systems of provisioning and settlement that defined Ottoman power in the 1500s came unraveled in the face of ecological pressures and extreme cold and drought, leading to the outbreak of the destructive Celali Rebellion (1595-1610). This rebellion marked a turning point in Ottoman fortunes, as a combination of ongoing Little Ice Age climate events, nomad incursions, and rural disorder postponed Ottoman recovery over the following century, with enduring impacts on the region's population, land use, and economy.

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Studies in Environment and History)

Middle East

Cambridge University Press

Repairing the Breach

Repairing The Breach is a call and response collaborative narrative of two kindred spirits of a thirty year generational gap. The lyrics and poetry wraps around cultural oppression, and addresses social and emotional recovery. The Artist intertwined amplifying voices of shared similarities and differences through creative expression. They chose to live beyond the designated parameters dictated by society as the lyrics lift the readers beyond soul larceny. The authors collective experiences are defined as they respectfully remove their masks in a dominion that feeds on fabricated realities. The book consists of challenges, hard truths, compassion, vulnerability, faith activism, self-validation and transformation.

Repairing The Breach

Winters, Golden

AuthorHouse

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

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

THE GODDESS OF THE HUNT IS NOT HERSELF

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Studies in Environment and History)

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Studies in Environment and History)

Repairing The Breach

Repairing the Breach