The article covers a large enough chunk of time that it gets very awkward to talk about "colonialism" as such. One of the incidents the article describes was th

The article covers a large enough chunk of time that it gets very awkward to talk about "colonialism" as such. One of the incidents the article describes was the Dutch Revolt, where the people of the Netherlands overthrew their oppressive foreign rulers and began to flourish as an independent country. A shining example of an anti-colonial revolt, except that for historiographical reasons we don't call it that.