Journal of Glass Studies (review)

746 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE available data; an analysis by McQuaid of the origin of the Business Advisory Council; and a treatment by Lindert and Williamson of trends in American inequality over three centuries. Lindert and Wil­ liamson’s work makes imaginative use ofscanty data and is notable for its suggestion that occupational pay ratios may in some cases serve as relatively good proxies for more traditional measures of income in­ equality. Finally, Mokyr and Savin examine the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on the British economy using a theoretical framework developed for the analysis of stagflation in developed countries in the early 1970s. Not all economists, of course agree that the “current economic problems may be largely explained as a result of exogenous shocks” (p. 199). Also, Mokyr and Savin seem to over­ look the fact that the period 1965-69 is in at least some respects (war finance in particular) a closer analog to the Napoleonic period than are the early 1970s, a period in the United States during which de­ fense expenditure as a share of gross national product declined in real terms. Research in Economic History succeeds in providing a flexible format for a diverse body of work and making it available to a general audi­ ence more quickly than it might otherwise be. We can hope that the volumes which succeed it will be equally stimulating. Alexander J. Field* Journal of Glass Studies. Vol. 17. Corning, N.Y.: Corning Museum of Glass, 1975. Pp. 216; illustrations. $15.00. Vol. 18, 1976. Pp. 281. $15.00. Index, vols. 1-15, 1959-73 (1976). Pp. 85. $8.00. Volume 17 of theJournal of Glass Studies is a seventy-fifth birthday tribute to Donald B. Harden, one of the outstanding scholars in the field of glass studies. In addition to a personal tribute to him as a specialist in pre-Roman, Roman, and post-Roman glass and a ded­ icated museum administrator—he was keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1945-56, and director of the London Museum, 1956-70—by Robert J. Charleston, of the Victoria and Albert Museum and president of the Glass Circle, there is a bibliography of Harden’s publications, most of them contributions to learnedjournals ranging from “Punic Urns from the Precinct of Tanit at Carthage” in the AmericanJournal ofArchaeology (1927) to “Window Glass from the Romano-British Bath-House at Garden Hill, Hartfield, Sussex” in the Antiquaries Journal (1974). *Dr. Field teaches European economic history at Stanford University. His dissertation , “Educational Reform and Manufacturing Development in Mid-Nineteenth Cen­ tury Massachusetts,” won the 1975 Nevins Prize of Columbia University for the best dissertation in American economic history. TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 747 Articles making up this volume, which as usual is magnificently produced, are for the most part by scholars who have benefited from Donald Harden’s advice and assistance. One of the contributors, Raymond Chambon, the outstanding historian of the Belgian glass industry, died soon after writing his essay on 13th- and 14th-century glass found in the area between the Rhine and the Loire; and a short tribute to him by a former editor of theJournal, Paul Perrot, is also included in the volume. Most of the contributions—which come from scholars throughout the world—amount to detailed catalogs of items of old glass or mere fragments, with judicious, though not necessarily dogmatic, attribu­ tions as to place and time of making, supported by iconographical and archaeological evidence. For example, Dan Barag, of the Hebrew University ofJerusalem, deals with groups of rod-formed kohl-tubes, and Axel von Saldern, director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, with two cut-glass bowls dated from late 5th to late 4th century b.c., supposedly found in the same grave in Asia Minor and now in museums in Hamburg and Düsseldorf, and a hoard of Hellenistic glass vessels also now housed in his museum. Jorge de Alarcâo, professor of archaeology at Coimbra University, catalogs fifty-seven Roman-period bottles dearing a variety of interest­ ing decorative motifs found in Portugal; and K. S. Painter, of the British Museum, deals with nine bulbous Roman flasks and flask

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