Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is a historian of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. He 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. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2011, with a dissertation on epistolarity and revolutionary organizing, and published a first book on a different topic in 2015: Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution(Belknap/Harvard).
Books in order of publication:
Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution – 2015
A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History – 2020
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It – 2024
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