Published in 1862, Flanagan's chronicle demonstrates the author's enthusiastic, but politically impartial, approach to Australian history. Volume 2 addresses the campaign for the discontinuation of criminal transportation and the origins of the Elected Council, and concludes with substantial appendices pertaining to the economic, geographic and agricultural status of the colony.
Published after his death in 1862, Flanagan's chronicle demonstrates the author's enthusiastic, but politically impartial, approach to Australian history.
