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
主要参考文献和网站/ 235
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