Book One The English Revolution 3
1．The beginnings of the problem 3
2．Parliament is dismissed 9
3．Charles and the Earl of Stafford 13
4．The Battle of Edgehill 18
5．Oliver Cromwell 21
6．From Edgehill to Marston Moor 26
7．The King is defeated 31
8．The peace talks 36
9．The second Civil War 42
10．The execution of King Charles 47
11．The Lord Protector 55
12．Cromwell is dead—Long Live the King! 60
13．Life in the 17th century 66
14．Who's who in the English Revolution 77
Notes 80
Exercises 83
Book Two Winston Churchill 89
1．Boyhood and college days 89
2．Soldier and politician 93
3．Marriage and a career 99
4．Pre-war problems 104
5．Churchill and the First World War 108
6．The end of the war:Churchill in the shadows 113
7．The ups and downs of political life 118
8．'The Gathering Storm' 123
9．Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain 129
10．Britain's struggle 134
11．America comes into the war 138
12．The Anglo-American alliance and D-Day 145
13．The Soviet Union and the last weeks of war 149
14．Victory in war but disappointment in peace 155
15．Churchill's last years 159
Notes 164
Exercises 169
Book Three Women in Society 179
Introduction 179
1．The women's movement begins 183
2．Women in politics 198
3．The new feminism 206
4．Women at work 214
5．Women at home 224
6．Marriage and the family 228
7．Women and fashion 233
8．Discrimination in the 1980s 238
9．Women and the future 244
Notes 250
Exercises 253
Book Four Darwin and Evolution 259
Introduction 259
1．Erasmus Darwin 261
2．The early life of Charles Darwin 267
3．The Beagle 279
4．South America 285
5．Robert Fitzroy 292
6．The Galapagos Islands 296
7．Down House 301
8．Alfred Wallace 307
9．The Origin of Species 312
10．Gregor Mendel 318
11．Extinction 323
Notes 329
Exercises 332
Glossary 334