Conrad Totman

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

Early life Totman was born in Conway, Massachusetts. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and subsequently earned a Doctorate in East Asian history at Harvard University in 1964.

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