英国历史文化

　　《英国历史文化》是在内容依托教学理念指导下，基于国家哲学社会科学项目“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国家概况，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，表现手法活泼，效果生动直观。·设计了新颖的教材板块每·单元均包括课前热身、课文正文、课后练习、辅助阅读、专有名词列表、娱乐园地等。结构安排系统合理，突出学生的主体地位。·提供了多样的训练活动培养学生综合运用语言和知识进行沟通的能力、逻辑思维能力和探索求知的能力。·推荐了经典的学习材料在每个章节的最后部分向学生推荐经典的书目、影视作品、名诗欣赏以及英文歌曲等学习资料，延伸课堂教学，激发学生的学习热情。

暂缺《英国历史文化》作者简介

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