Conrad Totman

Conrad Davis Totman (born January 5, 1934) is an American environmental historian, Japanologist, and translator.^[1] Totman was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University.^[2]

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.^[1] 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.

Totman taught Japanese history at the University of California at Santa Barbara, at Northwestern University, and Yale. He retired from Yale in 1997.^[1]

Totman's published writings encompass 39 works in 145 publications in 4 languages and 7,885 library holdings.^[3]

• 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

• Yale faculty website

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