Conrad Totman

Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American historian, academic, writer, translator and Japan studies expert.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 is a retired professor at Yale University.Yale University,  Conrad Totman; retrieved 2013-3-22.

Early life
Totman 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.

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

Select works
In 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. WorldCat Identities:  Totman, 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: 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

 Other websites 
  Yale faculty website

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