This book offers a concise, accessible and engaging survey of worldwide Christianity across the span of the nineteenth century. A series of geographically focused chapters cover England and Wales, Protestant Europe (including Scotland), Catholic Europe (including Ireland), North America, and the impact of world missions. The remainder of the book then explores the counterbalancing themes of revival and renewal, and dislocation and decline, while the conclusion highlights other key issues including piety, femininity and sobriety. The result is a valuable birds-eye view that will be particularly useful to students and others new to the field. There are occasional errors, such as (p. 76) confusion between the ethnic composition of immigrants to the United States and that of the existing population, and (p. 113) the suggestion that British soldiers were required actively to participate in Hindu religious ceremonies (as opposed merely to attending them). There is also a superficiality inescapable in a work of this character, heavily dependent on secondary works that are themselves surveys, and an inevitable selectivity that will leave informed readers feeling that their favoured themes have received inadequate coverage. For example, to this reviewer, the treatment of the Church of England seems unduly to emphasise Anglo-Catholic revival and give insufficient weight to the role of Evangelicals. However such criticisms must be kept in due proportion: Frances Knight has undertaken a very challenging but highly desirable task with a substantial measure of success.