The bastion of liberty
Subtitle: Leiden University today and yesterday
By: Willem Otterspeer ; [translated from the Dutch by Beverly Jackson].
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789087280307
Subjects: Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden -- History
Other titles: Leiden University today and yesterday
Description: "The Bastion of Liberty is the first complete study of the history of the University of Leiden since 1875. Willem Otterspeer, a historian of university history, covers more than four centuries of intensive developments. Since the beginning, Leiden University has been an institution seeking the middle ground between the extremes. It has thus been an embodiment of the polder model several centuries avant la lettre. This is an engaged history, written by an author who is a member of the institution acknowledging his attachment, yet able to keep professional distance and unsparingly ironic."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index.