Unit 1 The Birth ofaNation / 1 Text A The Ancient Briton and Invasions / 2 Text B Anglo-Saxon England / 9 Text C King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table / 11 Text D The Venerable Bede (673-735) / 12 Text E William and the Conquest / 13 Unit 2 The Normans / 19 Text A The Norman Monarchs / 20 Text B William the Conqueror / 26 Text C Feudalism after the Norman Conquest / 27 Text D The Doomsday Book / 28 Unit 3 The Early Plantagenet / 32 Text A The Rule of Law / 33 Text B The Feudal Way of Life / 38 Text C The Canterbury Tales / 39 Text D The Crusades / 42 Unit 4 The House of Plantagenet / 47 Text A The Birth of Parliament / 48 Text B The Magna Carta / 54 Text C King John / 56 Unit 5 The 14th-century England / 60 Text A The Hundred Years War / 61 Text B The Black Death and Wat Tyler Uprising / 62 Text C A Horrible Disease-The Black Death / 65 Text D War Tyler and His Revolting Peasants / 66 Text E Joan of Arc——Maid of Orleans / 68 Unit 6 The House of Lancaster and York / 73 Text A The Wars of the Roses / 74 Text B The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower / 79 Text C The Middle Ages / 80 Unit 7 The Tudor Age / 83 Text A The Tudor Monarchy / 84 Text B The Reformation in England (1517-1563) / 85 Text C King Henry VII / 90 Text D Henry VIII and His Marriage / 92 Text E Thomas More and the Utopia / 94 Unit 8 The Elizabethan Age / 97 Text A The Reign of Elizabeth I / 98 Text B Queen Elizabeth I / 104 Text C Entertainment in Elizabethan Age / 106 Text D Defeat of the Spanish Armada / 107 Unit 9 The House of Stuart / 112 Text A The Age of Revolution / 112 Text B King JamesVIandI/ 119 Text C The English Civil War / 121 Text D Oliver Cromwell / 123 Unit 10 The House of Hanover / 127 Text A The Hanoverian Monarchs / 128 Text B Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) / 134 Text C King George III / 136 Unit 11 The Industrial Revolution / 139 Text A The British Industrial Revolution / 140 Text B Machines for the Industrial Revolution / 144 Text C The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution / 146 Unit 12 The Victorian Age (1837-1901) / 150 Text A Queen Victoria and Her Reign / 151 Text B Everyday Life in Victorian England / 157 Text C Charles Dickens (1812-1870) / 159 Text D Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) / 160 Unit 13 The World at War / 164 Text A The Great Britain in the World Wars / 165 Text B Causes of World War I / 170 Text C Winston Churchill / 172 Unit 14 Towards the New Millennium / 180 Text A House of Windsor / 181 Text B Long Live the Queen! / 185 Text C Margaret Thatcher / 188 Text D The Growth of Great Britain in Americans Eyes 190 Unit 15 Wales, Scotland and Ireland / 194 Text A The English Conquest of Wales / 195 Text B The Story of Scotland / 196 Text C The Ties between Ireland and the Great Britain / 201 Text D History of Wales / 203 Text E Duncan and Macbeth / 204 Appendixes Appendix 1 : Kings and Queens of England and Britain / 209 Appendix 2 : Genealogy of the Monarchs of England / 220 Appendix 3. Keys to the Exercises / 222 主要參考文獻(xiàn)和網(wǎng)站/ 235