Orange College of Breda Orange College of Breda The Orange College of Breda () was a college of higher learning at Breda in the Dutch Republic in the middle of the 17th century, teaching divinity, philosophy, mathematics, and law. In English it was sometimes called the Aurangian College, in Dutch , , or , and in French . Breda was the seat in the Netherlands of the House of Orange-Nassau, although the city was several times lost to the Spanish. At the Siege of Breda of 1637 the city was finally recaptured by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, and in 1646 he founded the
The Country and the City 306). Chapter Eight of "Raymond Williams: Hope and Defeat in the Struggle for Socialism" "A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times." The Country and the City The Country and the City is a book of cultural analysis by Raymond Williams which was first published in 1973. Coming from the Welsh border, a village in the Black Mountains, Raymond Williams found that the images of rural life taught at the University of Cambridge did not match what he had seen. As an academic at Cambridge, he studied and examined the contradiction, along