Melvin Gingerich (35 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Booklet with card stock cover and side stapling. Booklet is used with some wear to cover and pages. Corners of pages have fold marks and crumpling. Tightly bound copy with clean interior having no markings, writing, underlining, or highlighting in margins or text block. Mennonite. Inv. # 11235.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. softcover.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition, Thus. 428 pages, including many ads. Blue cloth covers and gold stamped lettering remain bright. But, there are a few scattered stains on top and bottom covers. Volume is otherwise tight and clean, with no markings, etc. internally.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lightly rubbed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Original wraps. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. 48pp. Outlines Mennonite beliefs in nonresistance in order to help COs decide between the two alternatives offered them by the US Selective Service Act of 1948. 7.5" x 5.25".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition. Pages look free of highlighting and underlining. Wear to the exterior. Small notation in white on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is very good with a clean interior with slight wear to gilt on spine. A history if Mennonite Public Service during World War Two. A history of the Mennonite resisters and the camps run by the Mennonites and the cooperation (at times) with the federal government. A basic book on CPS camps and Mennonite resistance.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. OWNER NAME; NO MARKING.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library with the usual labeling. Light shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Mennonites In Iowa. Book.

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Mennonites in Iowa. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Owner's Inscription Present Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Solid binding. Minimal wear to covers. Slight fading to volume information on covers. Name on front endpaper. No dust jacket. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. The State Historical Society of Iowa. c1939. 419pp., index. 8vo. Navy blue cloth ruled in gold on front cove and spine, gold titles on front cover and spine. Minor rubbing on covers, ends of spine, clean unmarked interior; overall an attractive hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Prvious owner's stamp on the front pastedown otherwise Near Fine in blue cloth with gilt titles. 1st Printing.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 419 pages. Blue cloth boards with gold foil decorations and lettering. Clean and tight. Deckled page edges. Very light rubbing on bottom edge of spine.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good copy with mild page foxing, previous bookstore price tag on front pastedown and minor shelfwear and bumping to corners of pictorial cloth cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. 1st Edition. Natural linen, speckled in purple, lettered/illus. in black. xvii,192 pp., illus. Spine panel cloth slightly tanned, former owner's signature inked on front flyleaf, otherwise as issued. 1st ed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. 1st Edition. Natural linen, speckled in purple, lettered/illus. in black. xvii,192 pp., illus. Cover cloth slightly foxed, spine panel a bit tanned, otherwise as issued. 1st ed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ present. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Endpaper map. xvii, [1], 508, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes and Citations. Am Annotated Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. Melvin Gingerich (29 January 1902--24 June 1975. Melvin Gingerich received a Ph.D. in history from the State University of Iowa (1938). He was Archivist of the Mennonite Church Archives at Goshen from 1947 until his retirement in 1970 and also served as editor of the Mennonite Historical Bulletin, published by the Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church. His published works included Mennonites in Iowa (1939), Service for Peace (1949), Youth and Christian citizenship (1949), What of noncombatant service : a study of alternatives facing the conscientious objector (1949), Who's Who Among the Mennonites (1943, as Assistant Editor), The Christian and revolution (1968), and Mennonite attire through four centuries (1970). He was Managing Editor of the Mennonite Quarterly Review from 1952-1970. After his retirement, Gingerich continued his activities as researcher, writer, lecturer, and consultant to various church agencies at home and abroad until his death. A devoted member of the Mennonite Church (MC), his interest, concern, and service included the total Mennonite movement throughout the world. In 1969 he made a tour of Mennonite communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, discussing archival matters with leaders in these locations and helping establish archival policies. In 1974 he became the first person to receive the Sister M. Claude Lane Memorial Award established by the Society of Southwest Archives and granted by the Society of American Archivists. The Civilian Public Service (CPS) was a program of the United States government that provided conscientious objectors with an alternative to military service during World War II. From 1941 to 1947, nearly 12,000 draftees, willing to serve their country in some capacity but unwilling to perform any type of military service, accepted assignments in "work of national importance" in 152 CPS camps throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Draftees from the historic peace churches and other faiths worked in areas such as soil conservation, forestry, fire fighting, agriculture, under the supervision of such agencies as the U.S. Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service, and the National Park Service. Others helped provide social services and mental health services. The CPS men served without wages and minimal support from the federal government. The cost of maintaining the CPS camps and providing for the needs of the men was the responsibility of their congregations and families. CPS men served longer than regular draftees and were not released until well after the end of the war. Initially skeptical of the program, government agencies learned to appreciate the men's service and requested more workers from the program. CPS made significant contributions to forest fire prevention, erosion and flood control, medical science and reform of the mental health system. The story of Mennonite Civilian Public Service is told here for all branches of the Mennonite brotherhood in North America. All these bodies took a common and united position as nonresistant Christians, in full accord with their historic four-hundred-year-old heritage, in rejecting all forms of military service, combatant and noncombatant, an in offering constructive service for the public good as a testimony for what they believe to be the way of peace and love. The history of Mennonite "service for peace' is one history and required a unified presentation although the cooperating groups have somewhat varying records of performance and may differ in certain points in their evaluation of the total experience. The major attention of this book is given to the record in the United States, with only a brief chapter devoted to Canada.