Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American historian, academic, writer, translator and
Japanologist.
[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.
Early life
Totman was born in
Conway, Massachusetts. He studied at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst; and he earned a Ph.D. in 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.
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* ''Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600-1843,'' 1967
* ''The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868,'' 1980
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
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
References
External links
Yale faculty website
1934 births
Living people
American Japanologists
Yale University faculty
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Harvard University alumni
People from Conway, Massachusetts
Environmental historians
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
United States Army soldiers
American male non-fiction writers
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