Conrad Totman
historian from the United States
Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American historian, academic, writer, translator and Japan studies expert.[1] Totman is a retired professor at Yale University.[2]
Early life
changeTotman was born in Conway, Massachusetts. He studied at the University of Massachusetts. He was granted a Ph.D. in Asian history at Harvard University in 1964.[1]
Career
changeTotman taught Japanese history at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at Northwestern University, and at Yale. He retired from Yale in 1997.[1]
Select works
changeIn an overview of writings by and about Totman, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 30+ works in 140+ publications in 4 languages and 7,800+ 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: a biography, 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
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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: Totman, Conrad D.