Conrad Totman
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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, [http://history.yale.edu/people/conrad-totman Conrad Totman]; retrieved 2013-3-22.
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. 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.[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230150412/http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm |date=December 30, 2010 }}: [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-115528 Toman, Conrad D.]
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- 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
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External links
- [http://history.yale.edu/people/conrad-totman Yale faculty website]
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Category:21st-century American historians
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Category:American Japanologists
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:Environmental historians
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:People from Conway, Massachusetts
Category:United States Army soldiers
Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Category:Yale University faculty
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