This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive s
Retired now from active teaching at Northwestern and Yale, Japanese historian Totman looks at how the stages of the human story, from pre- agricultural times down to about 1870, played out in the part
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
