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Greater Reconstruction
mid 19th century – late 19th century
Location	United States
Key events	Mexican–American War American Civil War Reconstruction era American Indian Wars Chinese Exclusion Act

The Greater Reconstruction refers to a period of intersecting racial tensions, westward settler colonialism, ideas about republican citizenship, and expanding federal governmental power in the history of the United States during the nineteenth century. Historian Elliott West coined the term as a framework for connecting the history of race in the American West to the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. []

Historiography

Time frame

When he coined the term, Elliott West argued that the Greater Reconstruction began when the United States' westward territorial acquisitions in the 1840s "triggered an American racial crisis" in the perspective of racist Euro-Americans, "symbolically" ended with the 1877 defeat of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce in the Nez Perce War, and "practically" ended with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. According to historian William S. Kiser, the Greater Reconstruction ended with the 1898 Spanish–American War.

History

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Bibliography

Books

• Dean, Adam Wesley (2015). An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-1991-0.
• Kerstetter, Todd M. (2015). Inspiration and Innovation: Religion in the American West. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-84838-8.
• Kiser, William S. (2022). Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U. S.–Mexico Borderlands. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-5351-1. JSTOR j.ctv1f45qw0.
• Paddison, Joshua (2012). American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California. University of California Press and Huntington Library. ISBN 978-0-52028-905-5.
• West, Elliott (2009). The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513675-3.
• White, Richard (2017). The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896. Oxford History of the United States. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199735815.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Journals

• Atkinson, Evelyn (March 2020). "Slaves, Coolies, and Shareholders: Corporations Claim the Fourteenth Amendment". Journal of the Civil War Era. 10 (1): 54–80. doi:10.1353/cwe.2020.0003. JSTOR 26888072.
• Hämäläinen, Pekka (December 2016). "Reconstructing the Great Plains: The Long Struggle for Sovereignty and Dominance in the Heart of the Continent". Journal of the Civil War Era. 6 (4): 481–509. doi:10.1353/cwe.2016.0070. JSTOR 26070453.
• Kiser, William S. (July 2023). "Greater Reconstruction in Historiographical Perspective". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 127 (1): 108–113. doi:10.1353/swh.2023.a900771.
• Smith, Stacey L. (December 2016). "Beyond North and South: Putting the West in the Civil War and Reconstruction". Journal of the Civil War Era. 6 (4): 566–591. doi:10.1353/cwe.2016.0073. JSTOR 26070456.
• Thomas, Brook (March 2017). "The Unfinished Task of Grounding Reconstruction's Promise". Journal of the Civil War Era. 7 (1): 16–38. doi:10.1353/cwe.2017.0011. JSTOR 26070488.
• Waite, Kevin (July 2023). "The Brittle West: Secession and Separatism in the Southwest Borderlands during the Civil War Era". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 127 (1): 8–28. doi:10.1353/swh.2023.a900767.
• West, Elliott (Spring 2003). "Reconstructing Race". Western Historical Quarterly. 34 (1): 6–26. doi:10.2307/25047206.
• West, Elliott (July 2023). "'It Is Hard to Tell Who Is Who and What is What': An Introduction to the Southwestern Historical Quarterly's Special Issue on Greater Reconstruction in the Southwestern Borderlands". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 127 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1353/swh.2023.a900766.