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Buliding in Britain: The Origins of a Modern Industry. By Akira Satoh. English edition by Ralph Morton. Aldershot: Scolar Press, Pp. xvi, 316. $76.95

provides a timely and valued service by summarizing and synthesizing this literature. In addition to thorough coverage of secondary sources, Northrup adds original research based on British government documents. His is the first book to view the trade from a global perspective for a general audience. As such, the book will make an excellent undergraduate text in courses specializing in nineteenth-century global history or modern migration and labor history. Labor historians, however, may feel that some issues are not thoroughly covered. For example, Northrup argues that while the impetus for the revived indentured trade was to find a close substitute for slave labor, particularly in the sugar industry, the indentured trade itself, despite acknowledged abuses, had more in common with nineteenth-century free-labor migrations than with the African slave trade or the seventeenthcentury trade in European indentured servants. However, the evidential support for this argument, and the philosophical debate over the varying degrees of freedom and coercion within a system of bound contract labor, are not pursued in depth.