Inflation Decade, 1910-1920
Americans Confront the High Cost of Living
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Prelude: Price Deflation, 1865-1897.- Chapter 3. Prices Begin a Slow Rise, 1897-1909.- Chapter 4. Concern Intensifies in 1910: What or Whom to Blame?.- Chapter 5. Reform in Detail: Attempted Remedies for Rising Prices, 1910-1914.- Chapter 6. Food Prices, Democratic Political Gains, and Legislation, 1911-1914.- Chapter 7. The High Cost of Living: Respite and Upsurge, 1915 toEarly 1917.- Chapter 8. The Inflation Muddle, 1915 to June 1917.- Chapter 9. War Finance and Prices.- Chapter 10. One Commodity at a Time: Wartime Attempts to Restrain Prices and Profiteering.- Chapter 11. Getting By: Earners Confront Changing Real Incomes.- Chapter 12. Postwar: Brief Respite and Resurgent High Cost of Living, 1919-1920.- Chapter 13. Confronting High Prices: Pursuing Profiteering and Systemic Causes, 1919-1920.- Chapter 14. Inflation vs. Deflation, 1920: Anxiety, Indecision, Reversal, and Electoral Upheaval.- Chapter 15. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Cost-of-Living Index.- Chapter 16. Deflation's Consequences: Winners, Losers, and a Brief New Normalcy.- Chapter 17. Epilogue: 1920s to Present.- Chapter 18. Conclusion.
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David I. Macleod
David I. Macleod is Professor Emeritus of History at Central Michigan University, where he taught American social and political history. His publications include Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920 and The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890-1920.
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