The reader plunges into the whirlwind of revolution in this study of the satirical press thatcirculated after the Young Turks reinstated the Ottoman constitution in 1908. The brave newworld depicted in the more than one hundred cartoons reprinted in this work is headed inunknown and often paradoxical directions: we see starving peasants confront fur-coatedrevolutionaries; dragon-headed despots leading Lady Liberty by the arm; cadaverous choleravictims patrolling the streets; and a woman steering an airplane above the revolutionary city of thefuture. The 1908 revolution will never look quite the same to readers familiar with the (still scant)treatment of the subject in the English language. Palmira Brummett addresses her innovative studynot only to revisionist historians of the late Ottoman period, but also to a wider community ofscholars interested in the history of publishing and the construction of identity in the Middle East,Europe, and elsewhere.