"This meticulous study is a must read for scholars and students interested in (African) prison/camp history and German and British colonialism... Those with an interest in forced labour will take away as much as those reading for information on the postcolonial 'continuity thesis'." ? Journal of Namibian Studies
"A convincing and readable study ... analytically compelling and based on rich primary-source research." ? Militargeschichtliche Zeitschrift
"In agreeably sober language, Jonas Kreienbaum uses a broad selection of material to convincingly reconstruct the aims, practices, and functions of colonial concentration camps." ? Historische Zeitschrift
"Kreienbaum ... not only engages at length with the opposing positions in a longstanding debate, but also approaches his research questions expertly, based on a wealth of primary sources consulted in state and missionary archives in Germany, Namibia, South Africa and Great Britain as well as contemporary scholarship." ? Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft
