Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio, The lion's share: inequality and the rise of the fiscal state in preindustrial Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. v+232. 29 figs. 21 tabs. ISBN 9781108476218 Hbk. £31.99)
some extent, the desire to demonstrate the diversity within sibling groups is at the expense of analysis, and Capp raises many issues that will hopefully inspire further contributions to the field. One thing that emerges from the evidence, and deserves greater consideration, is the dynamic nature of sibling relationships. The ties that bound brothers and sisters were forged in the nuclear family unit but developed into kinship networks that were repeatedly transformed during the life cycle of the family, and it is testimony to the strength of such ties that so many of the sibling groups considered by Capp withstood the test of time.