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 I explores how technology has been conceptualized, represented, and researched across different times and places. Part I revisits core concepts that have shaped the field, including efficiency, power, ownership, cosmology, and society. Part II turns to questions of method and evidence, challenging assumptions about what constitutes an archive, a genealogy, or a discipline. Together, the essays show how some technologies and histories of technology have served as tools of social ordering and ideological legitimation, while also emphasizing alternative approaches to broaden and decolonize the field. Contributors from diverse regions and disciplines highlight unexpected connections and perspectives, offering new frameworks for understanding technology and writing its history in more inclusive and responsible ways. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.