Name: Pakistan: Kaghan Valley
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Author: Stephen Platt
ISBN: 9781912460113

Type

Physical Book

Author

Stephen Platt

Publisher

Leveret Publishing

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN13

9781912460113

Synopsis "Pakistan: Kaghan Valley"

This is an account of a trip with Emily So of Cambridge University in 2006 to the areas affected by the Pakistan earthquake of 8 October 2005. The aim was to conduct a survey of survivors of the earthquake about their injuries as part of her PhD. My aim was to shed light on the factors affecting long-term recovery after major disasters. We interviewed people in Islamabad responsible for coordinating relief and reconstruction and visited the areas affected by the earthquake. We also drove up the beautiful Kaghan Valley as far as we were able. Understanding some of the issues faced by survivors of the earthquake was a powerful experience and we were treated with the warmest hospitality and generosity by everyone we met in Pakistan

Stephen Platt

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Stephen R. Platt is an American historian specialized in the history of modern China, with a particular focus on the 19th century and the foreign relations of the Qing dynasty. He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and earned his PhD in Chinese history from Yale University in 2004. His research focuses on the conflicts and transformations that marked the decline of the Chinese Empire and its interaction with Western powers.

Among his most notable works is Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (2012), which received the Cundill History Prize. In 2018, he published Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (2024), where he analyzes the events that led to the First Opium War. This book was a finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize.

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