Ronald Toby
Ronald P. Toby was an American historian, academic, writer and Japanologist.
Early life
Toby earned a doctorate in Japanese history from Columbia University in 1977.Career
As a university professor, Toby's teaching experience has included the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California at Berkeley, Keio University, and the University of Tokyo.Toby's academic specialization focuses on issues having to do with pre- and early-modern Japan. His book State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan demonstrates that during the so-called "closed country" period in the Edo era, Japan was never truly closed to the outside world.
Select works
Tony's published writings encompass 52 works in 158 publications in 3 languages and 2,117 library holdings.- 2019 — Leiden:Brill. ;
- 2004 — with Hayami Akira and Osamu Saitō. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ;
- 1983 — Princeton: Princeton University Press. ;
- 1977 — The Early Tokugawa Bakufu and Seventeenth Century Japanese Relations with East Asia. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University.
- 1974 — Korean-Japanese Diplomacy in 1711: Sukchong's Court and the Shogun's Title. M.A. thesis, Columbia University.