Ronald Toby

Ronald P. Toby (born 1942) is 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 &mdash; Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850 Leiden:Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-39062-1; OCLC 1066182857
 * 2004 &mdash; Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1870 with Hayami Akira and Osamu Saitō. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198289050; OCLC 53388426
 * 1983 &mdash; State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-05401-8; OCLC 182640041
 * 1977 &mdash; The Early Tokugawa Bakufu and Seventeenth Century Japanese Relations with East Asia. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University. OCLC 6909487
 * 1974 &mdash; Korean-Japanese Diplomacy in 1711: Sukchong's Court and the Shogun's Title. M.A. thesis, Columbia University. OCLC 45788706