Jared Farmer

Biographic Data

ID3990044
NAMEJared Farmer
GIVEN NAMESJared
FAMILY NAMEFarmer
SIGNATUREFARMER J
AFFILIATIONSProfessor of history at Stony Brook University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Sacred Groves and Wicked Problems

    Jared FarmerARTICLEDialogue A Journal of Mormon…2024

    This is a lightly revised script of a plenary lecture—a “lunchtime polemic,” in the words of the speaker—delivered on June 3, 2022, at the Mormon History Association Conference, in Logan, Utah, on the campus of Utah State University, the speaker's alma mater.I'm standing at this lectern in large part because I wrote a book called On Zion's Mount. Many, many times since 2007, the year I finished the manuscript in Los Angeles and relocated to Long …

  • Taking Liberties with Historic Trees

    Open AccessJared Farmer, J H FarmerARTICLEJournal of American History2019Cited by: 3

    Today, one of the innumerable minor privileges of American whiteness is the freedom to appreciate trees as just trees: anodyne features, ahistorical objects. Viewing the same scenery, African Americans can hardly ignore a painful past. "Trees carry an intolerable weight," states Glenis Redmond. Another poet, Lucille Clifton, begins, "surely i am able to write poems celebrating grass," before finding it impossible to advance to woody flora. A pred…

  • Bitterest Crop

    Jared FarmerARTICLEReviews in American History2017References: 1

    Bitterest Crop: Genocide in California Jared Farmer (bio) Primary books discussed, in order of appearance: Brendan C. Lindsay. Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846–1873. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. 456pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Benjamin Madley. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Unive…

  • A Chosen People, A Promised Land

    Jared Farmer, J H FarmerARTICLENova Religio The Journal of…2013

    Book Review| November 01 2013 A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i. By Hokulani K. Aikau. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 264 pages. $63.68 cloth, $17.49 paper. Jared Farmer Jared Farmer Stony Brook University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2013) 17 (2): 108–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.1…

  • On Emblematic Megaflora

    Jared Farmer, J H FarmerARTICLEEnvironmental History2010References: 1

  • Bargaining for Eden

    Jared Farmer, J H FarmerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2009

    Journal Article Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America Get access Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America. By Trimble Stephen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 319 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $29.95.) Jared Farmer Jared Farmer Stony Brook University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issu…

  • The Battle over Hetch Hetchy

    Jared Farmer, J H Farmer et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2006

    Journal Article The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism Get access The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism. By Righter Robert W.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxiv + 303 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $30.00.) Jared Farmer Jared Farmer University of Southern California Search for other works by this …

  • Driven Wild

    Jared Farmer, J H Farmer et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2003

    Journal Article Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement Get access Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. By Sutter Paul S.. Foreword by William Cronon. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xvi + 343 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Jared Farmer Jared Farmer Stanford University Search for other works by this author on:…

  • The Federal Landscape

    C Elizabeth Raymond, Gerald D Nash et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West. By Gerald D. Nash. (Tucson, Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest. By Dan Flores. (Albuquerque and Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country. By Jared Farmer. (Tucson Get access C. Elizabeth Raymond C. Elizabeth Raymond University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…

  • Glen Canyon Dammed

    Adam M Sowards, Jared Farmer et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2000

    Journal Article Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country Get access Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country. By Farmer Jared. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. xxvii + 269 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95.) Adam M. Sowards Adam M. Sowards Arizona State University, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Vo…

  • Salt Dreams

    Jared Farmer, J H Farmer et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2000

    Journal Article Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California Get access Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California. By deBuys William, photographs by Joan Myers. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xiii + 307 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Jared Farmer Jared Farmer Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volu…

  • Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country

    Jared Farmer, J H Farmer et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1998

    Journal Article Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country Get access Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country. By Topping Gary. (Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1997. xv + 404 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Jared Farmer Jared Farmer University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 3, Autumn 1998, Pages 392–393, https://doi.org/10.2…

  • Glen Canyon and the Persistence of Wilderness

    Jared Farmer, J H FarmerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1996Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Field Notes: Glen Canyon and the Persistence of Wilderness Get access Jared Farmer Jared Farmer graduating history student Utah State University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 2, Summer 1996, Pages 210–222, https://doi.org/10.2307/970618 Published: 01 May 1996