University of Washington Tacoma UW Tacoma Digital Commons History Undergraduate Theses History Winter 2014 Arrival From Abroad: Plague, Quarantine, and Concepts of Contagion in Eighteenth-Century England Talei ML Hickey
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/history_theses Part of the European History Commons, and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons Recommended Citation Hickey, Talei ML, "Arrival From Abroad: Plague, Quarantine, and Concepts of Contagion in Eighteenth-Century England" (2014). History Undergraduate Theses. 6. https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/history_theses/6 This Undergraduate Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the History at UW Tacoma Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Undergraduate Theses by an authorized administrator of UW Tacoma Digital Commons. Hickey 1 Arrival from Abroad: Plague, Quarantine, and Concepts of Contagion in Eighteenth- Century England Senior Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation In the Undergraduate History Program of the University of Washington Tacoma By Talei Hickey The University of Washington Tacoma March 2014 Advisor: Dr. Michael Kucher Hickey 2 Acknowledgements This research project would not have been possible without the guidance and support of my professor and advisor Dr. Michael Kucher. I wish to express my sincerest gratitude to him for all of his constructive feedback and tremendous patience in assisting me during the research process, as well as with the completion of this assignment. His academic leadership and expertise in the field of history have proven to be extremely invaluable, and for that, I am genuinely grateful.