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  • General Editors: Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, Matteo Valleriani, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin

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The Cambridge History of Technology
  • Volume 2, Technology in Action
  • Edited by Dagmar Schäfer, Francesca Bray, Matteo Valleriani, Shadreck Chirikure, Tiago Saraiva
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    June 2027
    Print publication:
    30 June 2027
  • 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.

The Cambridge History of Technology
  • Volume 1, Meanings and Methods
  • Edited by Dagmar Schäfer, Francesca Bray, Matteo Valleriani, Shadreck Chirikure, Tiago Saraiva
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2027
    Print publication:
    31 May 2027
  • 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.