Conrad Totman

Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American environmental historian, Japanologist, and translator.[1] Totman was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University.[2]

Conrad Totman at Northwestern University, 1975

Early life

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Totman was born in Conway, Massachusetts. He did his undergraduate studies at the and subsequently earned a in East Asian history at Harvard University in 1964.[1] He enlisted in the army in 1953. He served with the 8th Preventive Medicine Control Detachment in South Korea arriving 5 June 1954, just after the Korean War.

Career

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Totman taught Japanese history at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at Northwestern University, and Yale. He retired from Yale in 1997.[1]

Select works

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Totman's published writings encompass 39 works in 145 publications in 4 languages and 7,885 library holdings.[3]

  • Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600-1843, 1967
  • The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868, 1980
  • Japan Before Perry: A Short History, 1981
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu: Shogun, 1983
  • The Origins of Japan's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita, 1985
  • The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan, 1989
  • Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan, 1990
  • Early Modern Japan, 1993
  • The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan, 1995
  • A History of Japan, 2000
  • Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective, 2004
  • Japan's Imperial Forest, Goryorin, 1889-1945: with a supporting study of the Kan/Min division of woodland in early Meiji Japan, 1871-76, 2007
  • Japan: An Environmental History, 2014

References

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  1. ^ a b c Conrad Totman Papers (MS 447). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst; retrieved 2013-3-22.
  2. ^ Yale University, Conrad Totman; retrieved 2013-3-22.
  3. ^ WorldCat Identities Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine: Toman, Conrad D.
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