Ngô Vĩnh Long (April 10, 1944 – October 12, 2022) was a

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historian, a professor of History at the

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from 1985 until his death. Long was the author of the 1973 book ''Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French''. Long graduated from

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in 1978 and was hired at the University of Maine in the Department of History in 1985. He died after a brief illness on October 12, 2022, at the age of 78.

Published works

* ''Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French'' 1973

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* ''Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States and the War'' 1991

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, Coauthor Douglas Allen (philosopher) * ''Vietnamese Women in Society and Revolution: The French Colonial Period'' 1974 Vietnam Resource Center,

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References

1944 births 2022 deaths Vietnamese emigrants to the United States University of Maine faculty 20th-century Vietnamese historians Historians of Vietnam American anti–Vietnam War activists Harvard University alumni People from Vĩnh Long province 21st-century Vietnamese historians {{US-historian-stub