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

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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 foothold...

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Main Author:	White, Sam, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Europeans > North America > History. Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans. Human beings > Effect of climate on > North America. Archaeology and history > North America. North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. North America > Discovery and exploration.

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