An oral history of the April 1, 1946 tsunami at Laupāhoehoe, Hawaiʻi: a case study in the educative value of constructing history from memory and narrative

An oral history of the April 1, 1946 tsunami at Laupāhoehoe, Hawaiʻi: a case study in the educative value of constructing history from memory and narrative

The tsunami of April 1, 1946 was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of modern Hawaiʻi. Of the 159 casualties in the islands, twenty-four died at Laupahoehoe, a sugar plantation community on Hawaiʻi island. This study presents and analyzes oral history narratives of five survivors and eyew...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nishimoto, Warren S
Other Authors: Tamura, Eileen H
Format: Others
Language:en-US
Published: University of Hawaii at Manoa 2008
Subjects:
Tsunamis > Hawaii > Historiography
History > Methodology
Historiography > Hawaii
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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3032

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