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Totman, Conrad Davis was born on January 5, 1934 in Conway, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Raymond Smith and Mildred Edna (Kingsbury) Totman.
(Paperback 205 pages. Copyright 1983 by Conrad Totman. Pub...)
Paperback 205 pages. Copyright 1983 by Conrad Totman. Published by Heian International Union City Ca. From Introduction: An oft-repeated saying in Japan goes like this: When asked what he would do if a cuckoo refused to sing for him, Oda Nobunaga replied, "I would force it to sing." Tokugawa Ieyasu replied, "I would wait for it to sing." These three responses are supposed to reveal the differences in character of the three men who dominated Japan's political life between 1570 and 1615. Seizing power one after another, they gradually imposed peace and order on a country that had been torn by recurrent civil war for over a century.
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( This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Seri...)
This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman’s widely acclaimed study of Japan’s environmental policies over the centuries. Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan’s steeply mountainous woodland has remained biologically healthy despite centuries of intensive exploitation by a dense human population that has always been dependent on wood and other forest products. Mindful that in global terms this has been a rare outcome, and one that bears directly on Japan’s recent experience as an affluent, industrial society, Totman examines the causes, forms, and effects of forest use and management in Japan during the millennium to 1870. He focuses mainly on the centuries after 1600 when the Japanese found themselves driven by their own excesses into programs of woodland protection and regenerative forestry.
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( By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely popu...)
By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a varied array of sophisticated cultural production. In this authoritative survey, Conrad Totman examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in detail the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs, weaving interpretations of the major themes in Japan's cultural and political development into a rich historical narrative.
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Quoting from a reader's report this is an original and compelling synthesis of the environmental history of Korea and Japan. Taking the history of Japan and Korea and their environmental interactions from late Pleistocene down to about 1870 AD, the author makes a convincing case for viewing the two countries together, as a history, particularly when looking at their pre-industrial experiences. Drawing from a rare combination of knowledge of both countries, Conrad Totman reveals the extent of shared timing, substance, and dynamics in the political, social, and economic development of the two countries, and in their relationship to the ecosystem.With extensive bibliography, chronology, glossary, maps and graphs.A real must.
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Totman, Conrad Davis was born on January 5, 1934 in Conway, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Raymond Smith and Mildred Edna (Kingsbury) Totman.
Bachelor of Arts, University Massachusetts, 1958; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964.
Assistant professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1964-1966; assistant professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1966-1968; associate professor, Northwestern University, 1968-1972; professor Japanese history, Northwestern University, 1972-1984; department chairman history, Northwestern University, 1977-1980; professor Japanese history, Yale University, New Haven, 1984-1997; professor emeritus, Yale University, New Haven, since 1997; acting chairman Department History, Yale University, 1989-1990; professor Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, 1992-1993. Visiting professor Stanford University, 1997.
( By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely popu...)
( This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Seri...)
( This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early mod...)
(Quoting from a reader's report this is an original and co...)
(the key element in the year-end strategy of Tokugawa revi...)
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Served with United States Army, 1953-1956. Member Association Asian Studies (Northeast Asia council 1977-1980, chairman 1978-1980, executive committee 1978-1980, president New England Conference 1985-1986, council of conferences 1992-1995), Forest History Society.
Married Michiko Ikegami, January 21, 1958. Children: Kathleen Junko, Christopher Ken.