Reporter 24/5/00: Historical Tripos, 2002: Notice of subjects and periods

Historical Tripos, 2002: Notice of subjects and periods

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the options for Paper 1 of Part I of the Historical Tripos, 2002 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 294, 295), will be as follows:

(i)	No subject specified.
(ii)	No subject specified.
(iii)	The early modern parliament, 1509-1689.
(iv)	Science and magic in early modern Europe.
(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 give notice that the Special Subjects for Papers 1 and 2 of Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2002 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 295, 296), will be as follows:

A.	Power and dependence: modes of control in the Roman household and society, c. 50 BC to c. AD 300.
B.	The Norman Conquest of Britain.
C.	Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus.
D.	From Grotius to Hobbes: Natural law and the nature of man, 1590-1651.
E.	Oliver Cromwell and his critics, 1599-1698.
F.	No subject specified.
G.	American women in a revolutionary age, 1760-1810.
H.	No subject specified.
I.	Fin de Siècle Russia, 1891-1917.
J.	L'Année terrible: war and revolution in France, 1870-71.
K.	Richard Wagner and German history.
L.	No subject specified.
M.	War and nationalism on the Asian Front, 1941-49.
N.	Uhuru na Kenyatta: Mau Mau and independence in Kenya, 1942-66.
O.	No subject specified.
P.	Social history of the Third Reich.

Candidates for Part II in 2002, 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 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 297), by offering one of the Special Subjects A, B, C, D, and E listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 12, 13, 14, and 16 listed below.

The Board also give notice that the subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2002 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 295, 296), will be:

3.	The history of political thought to c. 1700.
4.	The history of political thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890.
5.	Political philosophy and the history of political thought since c. 1890.
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.	No subject specified.
11.	No subject specified.
12.	Transformation of the Roman World (also serves as Paper O10 of Part II of the Classical Tripos).
13.	Law and society in England, c. 1250-1500.
14.	The Vikings in Europe, c. 800-1100 (also serves as Paper 14 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos).
15.	No subject specified.
16.	Islamic Spain and North Africa, 711-1610 (also serves as Middle Eastern and Islamic History, 7, Paper Is. 23 of the Oriental Studies Tripos).
17.	Governance and community in early modern England, 1550-1800.
18.	The cultural history of early modern cities: 1450-1789.
19.	The politics of gender: Britain and Ireland, 1790-1990.
20.	Nation, state, society, and culture in Germany, 1794-1914.
21.	No subject specified.
22.	No subject specified.
23.	No subject specified.
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 day.
27.	The rise and fall of segregation in the American South.
28.	No subject specified.
29.	The history of the Commonwealth from 1839 to the present day.
30.	Historical argument and practice.

Candidates for Part II in 2002, 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, 16, 18, and 20.

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