A History of Japan

This single-volume history follows the Japanese archipelago from deep prehistory to the late twentieth century, organized around changing relations between people and their environment. Totman moves from geology and foragers through the age of dispersed farming and the ritsuryo state, then through medieval disorder, the Tokugawa bakuhan order, and the intensive agriculture that lasted into the nineteenth century, and finally into imperial and postwar industrialism. Politics, class, gender, letters, and foreign relations sit inside that ecological frame. The book is a general narrative history, not a monograph on a single era.

Bound in blue cloth, cover blocked in gilt and black with a design. Blue slipcase with printed detail from decorative screen on front.