Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

by James C. Mohr

Book Overview

A little over a century ago, bubonic plague--the same Black Death that decimated medieval Europe--arrived on the shores of Hawaii just as the islands were about to become a U.S. territory. In this absorbing narrative, James Mohr tells the story of that fearful visitation and its fiery climax--a vast conflagration that engulfed Honolulu's Chinatown.
Mohr tells this gripping tale largely through the eyes of the people caught up in the disaster,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195162315
• ISBN13: 9780195162318
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 6.2"