The Mammoth Book of More Dirty, Sick, X-Rated and Politcally Incorrect Jokes by Geoff Tibballs

The Mammoth Book of More Dirty, Sick, X-Rated and Politcally Incorrect Jokes by Geoff Tibballs

The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, it was this coastline that witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relation-ship between Europeans and Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about? How was it all organised? And how did the locals react to the opportunities these new trading relations offered them? The Kingdom of Dahomey is usually cited as the Slave Coast's archetypical slave raiding and slave trading polity. An inland realm, it was a latecomer to the slave trade, and simply incorporated a pre-existing system by dint of military prowess, which ultimately was to prove radically counterproductive. Fuglestad's book seeks to explain the Dahomean 'anomaly' and its impact on the Slave Coast's societies and polities.

The bestselling The Mammoth Book of Jokes and the upcoming The Mammoth Book of Dirty Jokes are written by Geoff Tibballs. He has worked as a journalist and a press officer in the past. He is now a full-time writer for Robinson, having previously published the bestselling Business Blunders and Legal Blunders. Sport, eating, drinking, and avoiding housekeeping are among his interests. With his wife and daughters, he lives in Nottingham.

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ISBN 13	9780762449453
ISBN 10	0762449454
Title	The Mammoth Book of More Dirty, Sick, X-Rated and Politcally Incorrect Jokes
Author	Geoff Tibballs
Series	Mammoth Book Of
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Running Press Adult
Year published	2013-11-05
Number of pages	481
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