Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is professor of history, French and Italian and law at USC Dornsife. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of Europe and the Americas in the age of revolution, with particular attention to the transnational influences that shaped modern national politics. His first book was on sailors and the politics of nationality; the second was a generational history of the Atlantic age of revolutions; the third (forthcoming in June 2026) is a history of the "long" American Revolution as seen through Fourth of July orations. Perl-Rosenthal is currently working on a fourth book project, a global history of maritime prize (seizures of cargoes and ships at sea in wartime) from a transimperial perspective, circa 1600-1900. The book will explore the key role of prize-taking in the construction of the first European world empires and their transformation in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.