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Historical Tripos, 2001: Notice of subjects and periods

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the options for Paper 1 of the Historical Tripos, 2001 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 301, 304), will be as follows:

(i) Holy war: Islam and the West.
(ii) The Jewish presence in society, 600-1750.
(iii) The early modern parliament, 1509-1689.
(iv) No subject specified.
(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, 2001 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 301, 305), 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, 2001 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 302, 305), will be as follows:

A. Power and dependence: modes of control in the Roman household and society, c. 50 B.C. to c. A.D. 300.
B. The Norman Conquest of Britain.
C. No subject specified.
D. From Grotius to Hobbes: Natural law and the nature of man, 1590-1651.
E. Oliver Cromwell and his critics, 1599-1698.
F. The politics of laughter: English satirical print, 1730-1840.
G. American women in a revolutionary age, 1760-1810.
H. Population growth, poor law provision, and policy debates in England, c. 1760-1820.
I. Britain and the conquest of Tropical Africa: Lagos and Zanzibar, 1850-1900.
J. L'Année terrible: war and revolution in France, 1870-71.
K. Social history of the Third Reich.
L. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the 'Grand Alliance', 1940-45.
M. No subject specified.
N. Uhuru na Kenyatta: Mau Mau and independence in Kenya, 1942-66.
O. The integration process in Europe, 1973-93.
P. The political economy of Thatcherism, 1974-90.

Candidates for Part II in 2001, 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, B, D, and E listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 23, and 28 listed below.

The Board also give notice that the subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2001 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 302, 306), 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. 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. No subject specified.
17. Governance and community in early modern England.
18. The cultural history of early modern cities: 1450-1789.
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. The politics of gender in Britain and Ireland, 1810s-1990s.
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. The rise and fall of segregation in the American South.
28. Conquest and conversion in Spanish America, 1492-1700.
29. No subject specified.

Candidates for Part II in 2001, 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, 18, 20, and 21.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 3 June 1999
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