The Cambridge History of Technology takes a global view of how technology has been understood and put into practice, and of the worlds it has made. Volume II examines technology through the lens of the everyday activities that build, sustain, and continuously transform human societies. Across five parts, the chapters explore how practices such as making and consuming, dwelling and moving, measuring and subverting, along with ordering and communicating, generate agency and shape both material worlds and ways of thinking. Many of these pairings highlight unexpected connections and the tensions between structure and meaning, control and change. Shifting focus from what technology is to what technology does, Volume II reveals technology not simply as a force acting upon history, but as the very medium of historical becoming. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.