本教材共分15单元,每单元设置主课文一篇,补充阅读课文2-4篇,课文内容依照英国历史发展脉络编排。教材内容主要展示了从部落入侵到英国当代的主要历史发展脉络,涵盖了较为系统的英国历史基础知识,并对其中一些主要的历史事件有所侧重。常规英国历史课中的一般性主题和话题将贯穿教材始终,其中包括英国各王朝的形成与更替、议会的形成、英国历史发展过程中的主要战争、主要君主及相关成就等诸多方面。 《英国历史文化》是在内容依托教学理念指导下,基于**哲学社会
科学项目“英语专业基础阶段内容依托式教学改革研究”推出的系列英语
教材之一。《英国历史文化》适用于英语专业一、二年级学生,也适用于
具有中学英语基础的非英语专业学生和英语爱好者学习。本教材具备以下
主要特色:
·遵循了全新的教学理念
以英国历史文化发展为线索,展现英国各段历史进程中的**概况,
既训练语言技能,也丰富相关知识。
·涉及了系统的历史内容
帮助读者了解英国各段历史时期的重大事件,系统介绍英国历史文化
发展背景。
·引进了真实的教学材料
真实、地道的语言材料,穿插图表、照片等真实的视觉材料,表

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 Crusades
Unit 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 Orleans
Unit 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 Ages
Unit 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 Utopia
Unit 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 Armada
Unit 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 Churchill
Unit 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' Eyes
Unit 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
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