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Unit 1 The Birth of a Nation 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 Wat 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 James Ⅵ and Ⅰ 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

AppendixesAppendix 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

主要参考文献和网站 235