Download or read book Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900 written by David Hoseason Morgan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1982, examines the technology, conditions and customs of the harvest and, through that, the life of the rural population of central England from the 1840s until the end of the century when hand tools finally gave way to mechanisation.