A Cold Welcome 英文原版 冷遇:小冰河期和歐洲與北美的相遇 Sam White

基本信息

By (author) Sam White

Format Paperback | 384 pages

Dimensions 140 x 210 x 30.48mm | 340.19g

Publication date 28 Feb 2020

Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States

Language English

Illustrations note 12 Maps

ISBN10 0674244907

ISBN13 9780674244900

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

內容簡介

Cundill History Prize Finalist

Longman-History Today Prize Finalist

"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

坎迪爾歷史獎入圍

今天的朗文歷史獎入圍者

“精心的環境歷史偵探工作”。

時代文學增刊

當歐洲人第一次到達北美時，他們面臨著一個寒冷的新世界。全球平均温度已降至幾千年來未見的低點。這場高潮劇變的影響是鮮明而又不可預測的：暴風雪和深凍，乾旱和飢荒，萬物都凍結的冬天，甚至是裏奧格蘭德。一場冷酷的歡迎講述了這個關鍵時期的故事，使我們從歐洲最早的不熟悉景觀探險到魁北克和詹姆斯敦的危險初冬。當我們面對自己不確定的未來時，它有力地提醒了不可預測的氣候帶來的意外風險。

“經歷了一次小冰河時期對北美殖民地的複雜影響的非凡旅程……這本精美而重要的書毫無疑問使我們無視了過去氣候變化的歷程。下。”

-小冰河時期的作者布萊恩·法根（Brian Fagan）

“經過深入研究，令人興奮……他對塑造北美殖民地的氣候力量的新描述與對這些早期災難的長期解釋大不相同。”

-紐約書評

作者簡介

Sam White is Associate Professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University.

薩姆·懷特（Sam White）是俄亥俄州立大學歷史系副教授。