A Civic Revolution

<p>This book shows how <em>democratic municipal government</em> became an important foundational and integrative initiative for the modern state. It shows how this became a necessary social and political innovation on the <strong>Victorian goldfields</strong> in the nineteenth century telling the remarkable story of how the first elected councilors established modern administrative systems and infrastructure bringing order and progress to a community emerging from the tyranny of the Goldfields Commission and the turmoil of the <strong>Eureka rebellion</strong>.</p>