Endowment
Constance and William Withey Endowment Fund in History and Music
Established by former University of California Press Director Lynne Withey in honor of her parents and their varied interests, this Endowment Fund makes possible a wide range of books on history and music.
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The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
by Karen Bloom Gevirtz (Author)Feb 2026
Sails and Shadows: How the Portuguese Opened the Atlantic and Launched the Slave Trade
by Patricia Seed (Author)Jan 2026
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
by Lucia Carminati (Author)Oct 2025

A Revolution in Music: The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales
by Évelyne Gayou (Author), David Vaughn (Translator)Feb 2025
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth
by George Lipsitz (Author), Robin D.G. Kelley (Foreword by)Aug 2024
Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World
by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre (Author)Apr 2024
Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf
by Nathaniel Mathews (Author)Apr 2024

Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris
by Jacek Blaszkiewicz (Author)Nov 2023

Musical Lives and Times Examined: Keynotes and Clippings, 2006–2019
by Richard Taruskin (Author)Mar 2023

On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought
by Musab Younis (Author)Nov 2022

Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
by Issam Nassar (Author), Stephen Sheehi (Author), and 1 moreAug 2022Open Access

A Carceral Ecology: Ushuaia and the History of Landscape and Punishment in Argentina
by Ryan C. Edwards (Author)Dec 2021
Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia
by Kate Franklin (Author)Sep 2021Open Access