A History of Japan

Why it’s on the list: Totman’s single-volume Japan, organised around ecology and energy regimes — forager, agricultural, industrial — rather than around dynasties.

Where I heard about it

• Replies to @typesfast — named in the thread answering “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.

Connections

• What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
• History · Institutions — where this sits in the corpus.