History Seminar: The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It: A Hemispheric Perspective
Comparative American History Seminar – Jointly organised with the Rothermere American Institute
Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo
Speaker(s): Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is Professor of History, French & Italian, and Law at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD in History from Columbia University in 2011 and has been on the USC Dornsife faculty since 2011. His most recent book, The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It, a generational history of the Atlantic revolutionary era (1760s – 1820s) was published by Basic Books (US) in February 2024. He is now working on two books: a history of the “Long American Revolution,” told through a study of the thousands of surviving Fourth of July orations, to appear in 2026, and a global history of maritime prize law in the making and unmaking of European empires, ca. 1600-1850.
