Unit 1 The Birth of a Nation/ 1Text A The Ancient Britons and Invasions/ 2Text B Anglo-Saxon England/ 10Text C King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table/ 12Text D The Venerable Bede (673—735) / 14Unit 2 The Normans/ 19Text A The Norman Monarchs/ 20Text B Feudalism after the Norman Conquest/ 26Text C The Doomsday Book / 28Unit 3 The Early Plantagenet/ 32Text A The Rule ofLaw/ 33Text B The Canterbury Tales / 38Text C The Crusades/ 41Unit 4 The House of Plantagenet/ 47Text A The Birth of Parliament/ 48Text B The Magna Carta / 55Text C King John/ 57Unit 5 The14th-century England/ 61Text A The Hundred Years’ War/ 62Text B The Black Death and Wat Tyler Uprising/ 63Text C Wat Tyler and His Revolting Peasants/ 67Text D Joan of Arc—Maid of Orleans/ 68Unit 6 The House of Lancasterand York/ 73Text A The Wars of the Roses/ 74Text B The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower/ 79Text C The Middle Ages/ 81Unit 7 The Tudor Age/ 84Text A The Tudor Monarchy/ 85Text B The Reformationin England (1517—1563) / 86Text C King Henry VII/ 92Text D Henry VIII and His Marriage/ 94Unit 8 The Elizabethan Age/ 99Text A The Reign of Elizabeth I/ 100Text B Queen Elizabeth I/ 106Text C Entertainment in Elizabethan Age/ 108Text D Defeat of the Spanish Armada/ 111Unit 9 The House of Stuart/ 115Text A The Age of Revolution/ 116Text B King James VIandI/ 123Text C The English Civil War/ 125Unit 10 The House of Hanover/ 130Text A The Hanoverian Monarchs/ 131Text B Napoleon Bonaparte (1769—1821) / 137Text C King GeorgeI II/ 140Unit 11 TheIndustrial Revolution/ 143Text A The British Industrial Revolution/ 144Text B Machines for the Industrial Revolution/ 149Text C The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution/ 151Unit 12 The Victorian Age (1837—1901) / 154Text A Queen Victoria and Her Reign/ 155Text B Everyday Life in Victorian England/ 161Text C Charles Dickens (1812—1870) / 164Unit 13 The World at War/ 169Text A The Great Britain in the World Wars/ 170Text B Causes of World WarI/ 176Text C Winston Churchill/ 178Unit 14 Towards the New Millennium/ 187Text A House of Windsor/ 188Text B Queen Elizabeth II/ 193Text C Margaret Thatcher/ 195Unit 15 Wales, Scotland and Ireland/ 201Text A The English Conquest of Wales/ 202Text B The Story of Scotland/ 203Text C The Ties between Ireland and the Great Britain/ 209Appendixes/ 213Appendix 1: Kings and Queens of England and Britain/ 213Appendix 2: Genealogy of the Monarchs of England/ 224主要参考文献和网站/ 226
