Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American environmental historian, Japanologist, and translator.Conrad Totman Papers (MS 447). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst; retrieved 2013-3-22. Totman was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University.Yale University, Conrad Totman; retrieved 2013-3-22.
Early life Totman was born in Conway, Massachusetts. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and subsequently earned a Doctorate in East Asian history at Harvard University in 1964. 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.
Select works Totman's published writings encompass 39 works in 145 publications in 4 languages and 7,885 library holdings. WorldCat Identities : Toman, Conrad D.
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
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External links Yale faculty website