Dutch Scholarship in the Age of Empire and Beyond: Kitlv - The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, 1851-2011
In: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Ser v.289
How was it possible for the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) to grow from a learned society with fewer than a hundred members and only one partly salaried employee in 1851 into a modern professional institute with 1800 members and a staff of over fifty in 2001? This book provides the answer to this question.