@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008813,
 author = {和田, 光弘 and WADA, Mitsuhiro},
 journal = {名古屋大学文学部研究論集. 史学},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {As we have seen, an “empire” is extremely popular as a theme of historical research today. An empirical approach to the word “empire” itself embedded in historical records is, however, exceptional though an ideological approach is prevailing. In this paper, I search the word thoroughly in several historical documents, or full-text databases indispensable for the study on the American Revolution, and empirically analyze the usage of the word in the documents including Journals of the Continental Congress, Letters of Delegates to Congress, Farrand’s Records, Elliot’s Debates, and Writings of George Washington form the Original Manuscript Sources. Their digital editions supplied by the websites of the Library of Congress, etc. are utilized in order to make searching for the word more efficient and to avert manual miscount. Several facts found are as follows. The word “empire” was hardly used to indicate the American colonies (states) until 1783, but in the year and afterward, it became applied to describe the newborn U.S.A. which acquired the extensive territory by the treaty of Paris in the identical year. Simultaneously, George Washington also used the word in the same way except for the period of his presidency, when he rarely referred the word. Even in the 1780s and 1790s, the usage of the word was still not popular among Americans compared with such relevant words as “union,” “confederation,” “republic,” etc. It was necessary even for federalists to deal with the word “empire” carefully because it had connotations of the former enemy, the British Empire, and American nationalism.},
 pages = {129--151},
 title = {ジョージ・ワシントンの「帝国」　―独立革命期における「帝国」の語の使用に関する一考察},
 volume = {54},
 year = {2008}
}