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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.
/ref> * ''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


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Yale faculty website
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