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Historical Tripos, 2000: Notice of subjects and periods

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the options for Paper 1 of the Historical Tripos, 2000 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 302, 305), will be as follows:
(i) Holy war: Islam and the West.
(ii) The Jewish presence in society, 600-1750.
(iii) No subject specified.
(iv) The history of the modern family in comparative perspective.
(v) Christianity in Africa.
(vi) Democracy in theory and practice: an Anglo-American perspective.
(vii) Revolution and revolutionaries in the modern world, 1789-1989.
(viii) The book in medieval and early modern European society.
(ix) The uses of literacy in Europe since 1700.
(x) No subject specified.
(xi) Gender in history and society from c. 1700 to the present.
(xii) Disease and society in pre-industrial Europe, 1348-1665.

The Faculty Board of History further give notice that the subject for Paper 23 of Part I of the Historical Tripos, 2000 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 302, 306), will be as follows:

Paper 23. The West and the 'Third World' from the First World War to the present day.

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the Special Subjects for Papers 1 and 2 of Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2000 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 302, 306), will be as follows:

A. Early Rome, c. 753-264 BC: myth, history, and archaeology.
B. No subject specified.
C. England and the twelfth-century Renaissance.
D. The First Crusade, 1095-1102.
E. Oliver Cromwell and his critics, 1599-1698.
F. Population growth, poor law provision, and policy debates in England, c. 1760-1820.
G. The political theory of Thomas Hobbes.
H. Woodrow Wilson and the First World War, 1914-20.
I. The integration process in Europe, 1973-93.
J. Richard Wagner and German history.
K. War and nationalism on the Asian Front, 1941-9.
L. The political economy of Thatcherism, 1974-90.
M. The politics of laughter: English satirical print, 1730-1830.
N. Britain and the conquest of Tropical Africa: Lagos and Zanzibar, 1850-1900.
O. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the 'Grand Alliance', 1940-5.

Candidates for Part II in 2000, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period before 1750, may meet the requirement to take a pre-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects A, C, D, E, and G listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 23, and 28 listed below.

The Board also give notice that the subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2000, will be:

6. Japan and the West: development contrasts.
7. The growth of the secret world: Intelligence communities and governments in the twentieth century.
8. No subject specified.
9. No subject specified.
10. Death in early modern England.
11. No subject specified.
12. Transformation of the Roman World (also serves as Paper O10 of Part II of the Classical Tripos).
13. The Black Death and its aftermath.
14. Moorish Spain, 711-1525.
15. The Vikings in Europe, c. 800-1100 (also serves as Paper 14 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos).
16. No subject specified.
17. No subject specified.
18. No subject specified.
19. State and economy in industrial society: Britain and the USA since 1850.
20. The struggle for mastery in Germany, 1740-1914.
21. European cultural history and the two World Wars: Britain, France, Germany.
22. The British and Europe, 1815-1906.
23. Law and society in England, c. 1250-1500.
24. No subject specified.
25. The history of Africa from 1800 to the present day.
26. The history of the Indian sub-continent from the late eighteenth century to the present (also serves as Paper In. 26 of the Oriental Studies Tripos).
27. No subject specified.
28. Conquest and conversion in Spanish America, 1492-1700.
29. The history of the Commonwealth from 1839 to the present day.

Candidates for Part II in 2000, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper in European History, may meet the requirement to take a European History paper in Part II by offering one of the following papers: 12, 14, 15, 20, and 21.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 3 June 1998
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