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By the 17th century, after repeated forays, infiltrations, and invasions, forces from Manchuria capitalized on domestic upheavals in China to take power in Beijing, almost by default.
Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn.
The English Puritan Revolution, or Civil War, in some ways culturally the most radical of social upheavals, so annihilated religious artifacts created in England before it that they are preciously rare today; yet it affected the English language hardly at all, even temporarily.
While writing Big Trouble , the late Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Anthony Lukas, who took his own life in June this year, may have sensed that readers in the conservative 1990s would resist being reminded about these ferocious, long-ago American upheavals.
There’s also a sense of patriotism and national pride here even among the young — perhaps brought about by political upheavals in the late 20th century.