Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American environmental historian,

Japanologist , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, History of Japan, history, ...

, 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 is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

Early life

Totman was born in

Conway, Massachusetts Conway is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,761 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. History English colonists first settled Conway in 1 ...

. 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 South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

arriving 5 June 1954, just after the

Korean War The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was s ...

Career

Totman taught Japanese history at the

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, at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

, 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 * '' 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

External links

Yale faculty website
1934 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American Japanologists American male non-fiction writers Environmental historians Harvard University alumni People from Conway, Massachusetts United States Army soldiers University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Yale University faculty {{US-historian-stub