How the long nineteenth century breaks the neat century-by-century filing of people

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Century categories are too coarse to date anyone who worked across a turn of the century The 20th century was a tidy label until historians started arguing about when it ended The century a person belongs to depends on which calendar their country was using Filing by century puts a person beside others they never shared a world with How filing a person by the century they died in can misfile a whole life Filing people by century hides everyone whose life spans two of them Why someone born in 1899 and someone born in 1901 share a generation but not a century Whig history: the Victorian habit of reading the past as providence slowly working itself out. Why almost no historical figure looks the same to historians at home and abroad How much of a historical figure's surviving image was built by their own propaganda