| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown. By James C. Mohr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv, 235 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-516231-5.)

James C. Mohr's book is an exhaustive account of a plague epidemic that struck Hon-olulu at the end of 1899 and lasted into the early months of 1900. In his meticulous research of this momentous event in Hawaii's history, Mohr leaves no detail unscrutinized from the point of view of the complicated politics and daily decisions unfolding during these few short months at the turn of the century. Mohr is adept at tracing both the human and the political side of the epidemic, giving the reader biographies of the main players and a detailed map of the political landscape of Honolulu in the form of Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and white communities negotiating for geographic as well as economic space in a growing urban center.

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