Cambridge University Reporter


Historical Tripos, 2011: 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, 2011 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 323-324) will be as follows:

i  Money and society from late antiquity to the early modern period
ii  Royal and princely courts: ancient, medieval, and early modern
iii  Religious conversion and colonialism
iv  Modern economic growth: the European experience, 1700-2000
v  History of the emotions
vi  Democracy in theory and practice: an Anglo-American perspective
vii  Nature and the city in medieval thought
viii  The book in medieval and early modern European society
ix  The history of collecting
x  Migrants: emigration and immigration within and without Europe, the New World, and the Antipodes from the fourth to the twentieth century
xi  The politics of memory in the two German states after 1945 (German sources)
xii  World War II and its legacy in France (French sources)
xiii  Utopian writing 1516-1789

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the Special Subjects for Papers 1 and 2 of Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2011 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 325-326) will be as follows:
Knowledge, wealth, and power in the Roman Empire (A)
Saints in medieval society: Francis and Clare of Assisi (C)
Locke's politics, 1660-1710 (E)
The Irish rebellion of 1641: origins, course, consequences (F)
Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit mission to China (G)
The Adams family and American culture (H)
Class, party, and the politics of social identity in England, 1914-1945 (I)
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the 'Grand Alliance', 1940-1945 (L)
Asia's revolutionary underground: from Shanghai to Java, 1918-1948 (M)
Margaret Mead and the public face of social science, c.1928-c.1978 (N)
The political economy of globalization, 1939-1974 (O)
Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights movement (Q)

Candidates for Part II in 2011, 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, pp. 325-327) by offering one of the Special Subjects A, C, E, F, and G listed above or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 28 listed below, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2011, 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 after 1750, may meet the requirement to take a post-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects H, I, L, M, N, O, and Q listed above or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28 listed below, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period after 1750.

The subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2011 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 325-326) will be:
3 History of political thought to c.1700
4 History of political thought from c.1700 to c.1890
5 Political philosophy and the history of political thought since c.1890
6 No subject specified
7 The rise of the secret world: governments and intelligence communities since c.1900
8 Ancient Greek democracy and its legacies
9 The politics of knowledge from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment
10 No subject specified
11 No subject specified
12 Transformation of the Roman world
13 Death in the middle ages, c.1050-c.1550
14 The Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, AD 527-700
15 Jewish presence in medieval society
16 No subject specified
17 No subject specified
18 Material culture in the early modern world
19 Ireland since the famine
20 The French and the British problem, c.1688-2006
21 The politics of gender in Britain, 1790-1990
22 The long road to modernization: Spain, 1800-2000
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 No subject specified
28 The history of Latin America in the colonial period c.1500-1830
29 No subject specified
30 Historical argument and practice

Candidates for Part II in 2011, 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, 18, 20, 22.