Jossie van Til-Duijsters is an external PhD in History. In her research she focuses on the ideas of a group of Dutch politicians in the period between 1813 and 1830. These politicians had to address feelings on security of the public and at the same time shape the new monarchy. She will study which sources of inspiration they used and how they used these ideas in the new order of the monarchy reigned by William I.
To restore Dutch authority on Java and simultaneously make the colony profitable for the metropole turned out to be a step too far the first governor general.
In the late 1700s, Europeans travelled to the new American Republic to learn more about the ideas on government and society; amongst them the young Dutchman Van Hogendorp.