Carl Frederik von Breda was also a painter, who studied under his father. Breda died in Stockholm in 1818. Breda's great-grandfather Pieter emigrated to Stockholm around the year 1670 from the Netherlands. The "von Breda" family name seems to indicate a connection with the city of Breda. "Von" is not a Dutch preposition, but in the Nordic countries, this originally German preposition has occasionally been used as a part of names of ennobled families of native or foreign, but non-German, origin. Pieter's son Lucas (Carl's grandfather, 1676–1752) was a successful painter. His son Lucas (Carl's father, 1726–1799) was an "arbitrator in cases of shipwreck",
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