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]

Early life

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

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

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

^ ^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.
^ Yale University, Conrad Totman; retrieved 2013-3-22.
^ WorldCat Identities Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine: Toman, Conrad D.