American historian

Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American historian, academic, writer, translator and *anologist. Totman was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University.

Conrad Totman at Northwestern University, 1975

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Select works
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Early life

Totman was born in Conway, M*achusetts. He studied at the University of M*achusetts 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 *anese 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 encomp* 39 works in 145 publications in 4 languages and 7,885 library holdings.

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• Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600-1843, 1967
• The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868, 1980
• *an Before Perry: A Short History, 1981
• Tokugawa Ieyasu: Shogun, 1983
• The Origins of *an's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita, 1985
• The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial *an, 1989
• Tokugawa *an: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern *an, 1990
• Early Modern *an, 1993
• The Lumber Industry in Early Modern *an, 1995
• A History of *an, 2000
• Pre-industrial Korea and *an in Environmental Perspective, 2004
• *an's Imperial Forest, Goryorin, 1889-1945: with a supporting study of the Kan/Min division of woodland in early Meiji *an, 1871-76, 2007

References

External links

• Yale faculty website