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]
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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]
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