英国历史文化

Unit 1 The Birth of a Nation Text A The Ancient Briton and Invasions Text B Anglo-Saxon England Text C King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Text D The Venerable Bede (673-735) Text E William and the Conquest Unit 2 The Normans Text A The Norman Monarchs Text B William the Conqueror Text C Feudalism after the Norman Conquest Text D The Doomsday Book Unit 3 The Early Plantagenet Text A The Rule of Law Text B The Feudal Way of Life Text C The Canterbury Tales Text D The CrusadesUnit 4 The House of Plantagenet Text A The Birth of Parliament Text B The Magna Carta Text C King John Unit 5 The 14th-century England Text A The Hundred Years' War Text B The Black Death and Wat Tyler Uprising Text C A Horrible Disease-The Black Death Text D War Tyler and His Revolting Peasants Text E Joan of Arc——Maid of OrleansUnit 6 The House of Lancaster and York Text A The Wars of the Roses Text B The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower Text C The Middle AgesUnit 7 The Tudor Age Text A The Tudor Monarchy Text B The Reformation in England (1517-1563) Text C King Henry VII Text D Henry VIII and His Marriage Text E Thomas More and the UtopiaUnit 8 The Elizabethan Age Text A The Reign of Elizabeth I Text B Queen Elizabeth I Text C Entertainment in Elizabethan Age Text D Defeat of the Spanish ArmadaUnit 9 The House of Stuart Text A The Age of Revolution Text B King JamesVIandI Text C The English Civil War Text D Oliver Cromwell Unit 10 The House of Hanover Text A The Hanoverian Monarchs Text B Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Text C King George III Unit 11 The Industrial Revolution Text A The British Industrial Revolution Text B Machines for the Industrial Revolution Text C The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution Unit 12 The Victorian Age (1837-1901) Text A Queen Victoria and Her Reign Text B Everyday Life in Victorian England Text C Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Text D Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Unit 13 The World at War Text A The Great Britain in the World Wars Text B Causes of World War I Text C Winston ChurchillUnit 14 Towards the New Millennium Text A House of Windsor Text B Long Live the Queen! Text C Margaret Thatcher Text D The Growth of Great Britain in Americans' EyesUnit 15 Wales, Scotland and Ireland Text A The English Conquest of Wales Text B The Story of Scotland Text C The Ties between Ireland and the Great Britain Text D History of Wales Text E Duncan and Macbeth Appendixes Appendix 1 : Kings and Queens of England and Britain Appendix 2 : Genealogy of the Monarchs of England Appendix 3. Keys to the Exercises 主要参考文献和网站