This work represents an attempt to understand the frame of mind that the members of the Committee of Union and Progress bore through the Revolution of 1908 up to the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. As such, it is largely based on the memoirs of Committee members and those of their contemporaries. The books main argument is that, along with the nationalism of the era and the rise of the individual, various related concepts such as gender and homeland were also being re-evaluated and re-valued in the mi